About Us

Douglas Beach began pursuing a career in golf course design at the age of fourteen. He studied Environmental Design at The University of Massachusetts, and in 1979 he received a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University. In 1983 Beach began a fifteen year tenure with Nicklaus Design and the Nicklaus Companies and in 1989 Beach was assigned as Jack Nicklaus’ Design Coordinator for the remodeling of The Champions Course at PGA National Golf Club. In 1996 Beach was assigned as the Designer for Interbay which was honored as the best new practice facility in the United States for 1998 by the publication Golf Range Times.

Douglas Beach Golf Course Design, Inc. (DBGCD) was founded in 1998 and has since consulted on projects in Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, Ecuador, and South Korea, as well as in the United States. Shortly after the company’s inception, DBGCD formed an alliance with Golf Ventures International, a golf course consulting company owned by William Kent Alkire, a former Western Regional Agronomist and Director of Environmental Services for Nicklaus Design. Together Beach and Alkire are able to provide a wide array of design and technical services.

Beach is the designer of Heritage Hill Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. This eighteenhole course is scheduled to open in the summer of 2007. Both he and Alkire were chosen to remodel the two eighteen-hole courses at the Fort Jackson Army Installation in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2004 Beach opened Monteran Golf Club in San Jose, Costa Rica and in 2005 he opened a three-hole golf course and teaching facility for the First Tee of Benton Harbor, Michigan in association with The Whirlpool Appliance Corporation.