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Bill Coore
During the succeeding ten years, Coore was involved in the design, construction and maintenance of golf courses in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Canada, and Texas. Coore formed his own design company in 1982. Thereafter, he completed courses at Rockport Country Club in Rockport, Texas (featured in the 1986 issue of the U.S.G.A. Golf Journal), Kings Crossing Golf and Country Club in Corpus Christi, Texas and Golf du Medoc in Bordeaux, France (recently named one of the ten best courses in France and one of the top fifty courses in Europe). Bill Coore and his wife, Sue, now reside in Scottsdale, Arizona. |
Like his partner, Coore was exposed to traditional golf architecture during his formative years. A
native North Carolinian, Coore played much of his early golf at the
Donald Ross courses of Pinehurst and the Perry Maxwell designed Old Town
Club in Winston-Salem. A 1968 graduate of Wake Forest University, Coore
began his professional design and construction career in 1972 with the
firm of Pete Dye and Associates. Under the Dyes' guidance, Coore was
introduced to the elements of creative design and physical construction.
It was also the Dyes that first introduced Coore to the written classics
of golf architecture-- the same books that Crenshaw was then collecting
and studying. The information within these books was to later form the
foundation for the Coore and Crenshaw partnership.