Brett Hochstein
@HochsteinDesign
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Hochstein Design takes an organic approach to golf architecture--from routing to shaping to detail finishing to turf grass selection. Golf is nature's game!
Joined June 2014
Excited to reveal our plans for the special and historic 1924 William Land GC in Sacramento’s Land Park! Goals of the project are to fix critical infrastructure issues, reduce future water usage, and introduce fun + strategy through distinct Golden Age features. Happy 100 years!
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Have you been out to @Pasatiempo before or since Jim Urbina, @HochsteinDesign and @birdiejp performed the restoration? We took several visits to the site during the project, and recently put the peg in the ground to see how it all came out. Here's our take -
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@cookiejargolf @PasatiempoGolf @HochsteinDesign
https://t.co/3PH40bdqXz This is a fascinating piece by Brett.
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In restoring Alister MacKenzie's brilliant bunkers at Pasatiempo, the mission was simple--put it back to the photo. That simple mission though, due to a variety of factors is not quite as easy as it...
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Pasatiempo: Story of a Golf Club, is now live on YouTube. A celebration of Marion Hollins’ moxie, MacKenzie’s masterful design, and a restoration that’s returned one of golf’s greats to its rightful place among the best in the world. We hope you enjoy the film as much as we
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Pasatiempo was one of the first great golf courses I played, so I’ve always had an affinity for it. Even with so much recent praise (including now up to 110th in the world), I’ll still contend that this Alister MacKenzie design is underrated. A lovely spot to chase a ball.
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Clyde is both sensitive to history and sensical to the realities and approaches of GB&I clubs. That, and an appreciation for those “30 yards in front,” are IMO the prerequisites for working there (and probably should be anywhere).Start cautiously and carefully, and grow from that
Last week, North Berwick announced that it had hired Gil Hanse as its consulting architect. Clyde Johnson, who had worked with the club for the prior four years, joined me on Designing Golf to reflect on his own projects at the course and the future of links restoration.
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So happy to see GOLDEN GATE PARK as #2 public short course in USA. @firstteesf @theturfyoda @GGPGC @HochsteinDesign @JustCLW
Golfweek's Best Top 25 public-access short, par-3 and non-traditional golf courses in 2025
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Reliving a fond memory last night on the 8th hole at GGP (from media day 2023). Also watching the kids from @firstteesf chasing the sun. Great to spend the day playing and walking some of our favorite golf holes in SF with @HochsteinDesign.
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MacKenzie's genius was on full display on holes 2-6 at Cypress Point, allowing those holes to keep up with the dramatic dunes and cliffside holes to follow. More thoughts on strategic brilliance, deception, and artistry here:
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Despite a current fascination with deep, textured, and shadowy bunkers, Alister MacKenzie's bunkering at Cypress Point remains supreme above all, especially the unheralded stretch from holes 2-6.
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Some Cypress Point content for the Walker Cup that has nothing to do with the ocean and only a little about the dunes. My conclusion about a less-heralded stretch early in the round:
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New tee on hole 6 at Sacramento’s Land Park is grassed. Big and slightly oriented to the right, it’s built for the hole’s future as a sort of reverse version of 10 at Riviera. Nice big open canvas just waiting out there to introduce some strategy…
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“The game has been waging a battle against the inventor, and the architect has come to its assistance. The one aim of the inventor is to minimize the skill required by the game: he tries to invent something which will make skill less necessary; he appeals to the skill-less player
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Here’s said green and bunker in the Muirfield dunes:
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The first time I went down to East Lothian, I ended up, unplanned, spending an entire afternoon wandering around those dunes. Pretty great, and also the first time I ever saw a naturally existing greensite and bunker, ready for play if you wanted to
Sitting behind Muirfield and the Renaissance, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers own a jaw dropping piece of land. Every few years, word goes around that a top architect is working on a routing. Nothing comes of it. I suspect nothing will. But just look at that land!
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I’ve always enjoyed this bit and the rules/traditions/respect with the flag. Usually means a tougher round though, with a lot of holes cut close to the green edge! Happy 4th
If you're playing golf on the Fourth of July, here's one rule you need to remember
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Terrific article here. How our craving for “change” is provided through routing & golf course design choices. Love the photos used to further illustrate Brett’s ideas. *Tain is now on my Dream List!!!
People talk a lot about variety but not about the act of *experiencing* it. That visceral act stimulates us in core, human ways, and it’s also what distinguishes great golf from average golf. Thanks Fried Egg for letting me share my thoughts here:
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People talk a lot about variety but not about the act of *experiencing* it. That visceral act stimulates us in core, human ways, and it’s also what distinguishes great golf from average golf. Thanks Fried Egg for letting me share my thoughts here:
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"Which brings me to my final example and the greatest of all when it comes to change: Cypress Point. While the coastal, cliff-edge holes late on Cypress’s back nine get the most attention, the preceding journey is loaded with changes of dramatic, beautiful landscapes. The first
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Back right 13 LFG. Praying for someone to be stuck short right and use the embankment to steer it around the bunker
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