Brett Hochstein

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!

A moving, important, and chilling piece by @JoelMBeall with many words, but these highlighted below are at the core of the entire issue. If you care about public golf, I highly recommend reading the whole thing:

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Been waiting for this moment forever. And it delivered (with all Michiganders on the ice!!). Hell yes, USA Hockey

From Commerce Township, Michigan—my hometown. Amazing stuff

Relevant passage from my recent article linked below: “Stubbornly, the video doubles down on a tired, tone-deaf position by putting 100% of the responsibility for adapting to the changing equipment on the golf courses themselves. "Repositioning bunkers or growing rough in key landing areas can create real consequences for missing the preferred line, increasing the importance of precision over power," says the narrator. “This continues to be an insulting, victim-blaming argument. Absolving the multi-billion-dollar equipment companies of all responsibility for the problem that their admittedly impressive R&D capabilities have created is wrong. Forcing golf courses to take on the entire expense of solving that problem is galling. Demanding that courses reinvent themselves without asking the best golfers in the world to adapt is preposterous. So is the "the horse is out of the barn" excuse: using past USGA and R&A regimes' inaction on equipment to deny them an opportunity to correct things now, especially when, following the PGA Tour's own logic, reining in driving distance would not adversely affect competitive golf.” golfpass.com/travel-advisor…

@GrayCarlton Amazing. Every time I see something AI for golf, it has at least something wrong. So what does that mean for everything else that I don’t have knowledge about? Is everyone just going along believing false junk? That last question might be rhetorical…

Further prompting got something less absurd but still completely wrong

I asked grok to make a graphic like this for a USGA spec green and the result was equal parts amazing and horrible. It just can’t help but include the wooden ship and cannons

@GrayCarlton Hahahahaha

@jayblasi @BurlOaks @BurlOaksGCTurf @theturfyoda @DuininckGolf Luxury shanty!

Normally a @BurlOaks site visit in Jan w/ freezing temps doesn’t sound inviting. But when you get to ice fish w/ @BurlOaksGCTurf @theturfyoda @DuininckGolf it makes it all worth it.

@kevbo789 Of course. Think of the movement you could put on your slice!

@HochsteinDesign Should I get some blades??

This was awesome. Finally went all in on blades a couple years ago (despite not being “good enough” to play them), and they still make me happy every time I see them and swing them. Joy needs no advocate, indeed.

Live look at my set as I head out for a quick loop. Keep the baby blade 3 iron for inevitable necessary low punches

No, more like sports history. There is nothing like this, nor can there be. Only Leicester winning the EPL can compare

@PeteNash73 The latter part (along with image in the context of the community) is the more real one. I wonder how much the former was the influence though, which is a faulty one imo.

@HochsteinDesign organisers might not have wanted images of their course in less than lush conditions being televised, also concerns around water shortages & having a surge of people coming to the venue and not being able to meet their demands for hospitality without enough water to support them

Late to the party on this, but a point that has been missed on the whole Kapalua cancellation debacle is—would the course really have been unplayable? Last summer I found a number of drought-ridden UK courses to be as delightful and challenging to play as any I’d experienced

Lots to be seen & read & enjoyed in Brett’s 2025 overview. The lead off photo…I love the bunker with no sand, by the way. The “blueprints” are fantastic…great photos & good projects developing!!!

Need a break from (gestures in all directions) things this Monday morning? A review of golf (mostly) in the UK and NY Met may help: hochsteindesign.com/blog/2025/hoch…

@SHistorians @21golfclub Eric Iverson is very good at what he does.

My last putt to finish up my first round ever on the MacKenzie at @21golfclub. It was also my lone birdie. Will share some videos and photos tomorrow. It might be the most exciting golf course I have ever played. The greens look and can be severe, but when you share greens- those massive swales are really serve as the dividing line between the two holes. They are severe, but nobody would think twice about them if they had longer grass. In short it’s amazing.

@TZurybida Wow that's cool! Never knew that history about DC's famous cherry trees was tied to East Potomac (and still exists out there!). More history worth trying to preserve...

In 1909, Japan sent 2000 cherry trees to DC. They arrived in 1910, and were thought to be ravaged with insects and nematodes. All but about 12 were burned. The dozen or so trees from the original shipment are now between the 4th tee and 9th fairway on the white course at EPGL.

@Daib212 @evanbaldridge_ @GrayCarlton Could be. Could be intentional. We'll never know, but fun to think about, especially if the latter!

@HochsteinDesign @evanbaldridge_ @GrayCarlton The 8th hole left side of green mound also mimics the mountain in the backdrop. Coincidence?🤔 🙂⛳️

Can’t stop thinking about Kington Photos from @HochsteinDesign