Robert Trent Jones Snr (1906-2000) is one of the most famous golf course designers in history, having signed more than 500 projects throughout his career all over the world.

He was born in England and at the age of 5 moved with his parents to New York, where he started playing golf, reaching a high level of play and becoming the first professional golfer at the Sodus Bay Heights Club.

Jones studied at Cornell University, where he specialized in the architecture of golf courses. Shortly after graduating, he got his first order: the design of the Atlanta Peachtree Golf Club, in association with the golf legend Bobby Jones, with whom collaborated in several projects.

Courses designed by Trent Jones have as a hallmark a meticulous landscape architecture, an innovative use of the bunkers and the presence of numerous water traps, requiring a high level of strategy to obtain a good result.

Apart from the 21 courses that have hosted the US Open, he also designed other 12 that hosted the PGA tournament, and 6 more that hosted the World Cup. Jones also designed the golf courses of Valderrama, the site of the Ryder Cup celebrated in 1997, and the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia – site of “The President’s Cup” in 1994 and 1996. Besides, he collaborated in the National Augusta, reforming some of the most famous holes, specially 11 and 16.