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Ron Prichard is a renowned golf course designer.

Ron Prichard attended Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont and concentrated my studies on Economics and Fine Arts. While attending Middlebury, Prichard was a member of the golf team with which he traveled throughout New England to play many wonderful old golf courses. After graduating from Middlebury in 1963 and serving as an officer in the U.S. Army until his discharge in 1966, Ron Prichard then began a sixteen year long endeavor as he traveled the world working for famous designers Joe Finger, Desmund Muirhead, and Bob Von Hagge, until finally opening up his own practice in 1983.

He was a student of golf course designer Joe Finger, Desmund Muirhead, and Bob Von Hagge, although perhaps his greatest influence comes from the works of Donald Ross, Seth Raynor, A.W. Tillinghast, Willie Park, Jnr., and William Flynn, whose golf courses he is renowned for his restoration of.

Education
Ron Prichard attended Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont and concentrated my studies on Economics and Fine Arts. While attending Middlebury, Prichard was a member of the golf team with which he traveled throughout New England to play many wonderful old golf courses. After graduating from Middlebury in 1963, Prichard served in the U.S. Army as an Officer. During his recreation time here he played such courses as Longmeadow, Essex County, Worcester, and Myopia Hunt Club, in Massachusetts; the Yale Golf Course, and Fishers Island off the coast of New London, Connecticut; Wannamoisett, Rhode Island Country Club, and Newport Golf Club, Rhode Island; Shinnecock Hills, The National Golf Links, and Garden City on Long Island; Ridgewood, Baltusrol, Essex Fells, Pine Valley, and Somerset Hills in New Jersey, and Glens Falls in New York.

For sixteen years, since his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1966, Ron Prichard has studied golf architecture and been associated with three capable architects--Joe Finger, Desmund Muirhead, and Bob Von Hagge--who demonstrated a variety of styles and influences in their work. He has traveled constantly studying the greatest golf courses in the world in an effort to discover the secrets of the world's early master architects and had built the beginnings of a photographic slide library (now exceeding sixteen thousand slides) of most of the great classical golf courses in Scotland, Ireland, England, and the United States.

Design Philosophy
Many young men who have established young firms, have been trained only with an understanding of the “American perception of golf,” by men who themselves have never traveled to Scotland, Ireland, or England – never studied the early classic courses in America. In an effort to create golf courses which architects feel will better challenge the best golfers, most golf courses opening today severely penalize the less capable player and fail to stand the test of championship play. Many of these new courses embarrass and humiliate the player of modest skill. This is unfortunate, and faulty.