| About Raw Golf Course Design Raw Golf Course Design is a team of Europes most accomplished Tournament Professionals, Golf Course Designers, Golf Course Architects, Construction, Landscaping, Drainage, Irrigation, Agronomy, Maintenance, Management and Marketing Golf Experts. Raw Golf Design brings together an integrated level of service not offered by any other Golf Course Design Company in Europe. Raw Golf Design intend to provide designs for very high quality golf courses at affordable costs. By providing accurate and detailed drawings, together with precise specifications. Ian Woosnam and D J Russell have toured the worlds great courses playing tournament golf, and been exposed to all that is good (and bad) about these courses, they have seen design concepts used successfully and adopt those same principles to their own work.
At the same time they have developed clear concepts on the elements required for a golf course to be considered great, and without imposing concepts that are foreign or innapropriate to the land with which is being worked, incorporating those ideas into their design work.
Meet the Team
David Williams - Golf Course Architect
David has over 20 years experience in all aspects of golf course design, over 100 completed projects and 28 new golf courses in europe.
David was Consultant Golf Course Architect to the PGA European Tour for over five years, during which time he collaborated with leading professionals in the design of tournament/resort courses throughout Europe. On the amalgamation of all the individual national golf course architects associations in Europe in 2000 to form the European Institute of Golf Course Architects, David had the honour of being elected the first President of the united Institute, a recognition of his status within golf architecture in Europe. He leads a team of golf course architects, architects, landscape architects, agronomists, CAD technicians and quantity surveyors, so that they are able to take projects from initial master planning through the final handing over of the completed course, taking the scheme from ‘conception to completion’, and ensuring the client is delivered their promotional, programming and budgetry requirements. David has joined the raw golf design team, to provide the expertise through planning, design and construction stages that only experience can bring.
Ian Woosnam - Golfer and Golf Course Designer
Ian Woosnams record as a golfer speaks for itself, he has won more tournaments worldwide than any other contemporary British golfer. He was the first golfer in the world to win in excess of £1,000,000 prize money in a single year. He was ranked number one in the world for a record 51 weeks following his first Major win in the US Masters in 1991. He represented Europe for an 8th consecutive time in the 1997 Ryder Cup. Most recently, in 2006 he successfully captained Europe to a record equalling victory at the Ryder Cup, K Club, Ireland.
As a player Ian is renowned for his natural talent which requires little or no coaching, his flair, feel and ability to visualise shots leaves many of his peers astounded.
Ian has taken many of these talents and incorporated those same skills into his design work.
D.J.Russell - Golfer and Golf Course Designer
D J Russell turned professional in 1973 under Sir Henry Cotton at Penina Golf Club, Portugal.
He became, and still is, the youngest player ever to hole in one in a Major at the Postage Stamp (8th) at Royal Troon in the 1973 British Open at the age of 19. He played the European Tour for 23 years playing in over 500 events Worldwide winning 3 European Tour events and many other National and Regional titles.
He retired from competing on the European Tour in 1996, but remains on the Board of Directors a position he has held for 15 years.
In 2001 David was headhunted to design and mastermind a 36 hole Golf Project in East Lothian Scotland, set in a 600 acre estate between the world famous golf courses of North Berwick and Muirfield.
Archerfield Links 36 holes with 100 Properties was opened in 2004 to worldwide acclaim with the golf courses Fidra Links and Dirleton Links both ranked very highly in Golf Worlds 2006 Best British Golf Courses, which has positioned David as one of Europes leading Golf Course Designers.
He not only designed the golf courses at Archerfield, he also designed the Membership Concept for the Client,assisted the architect in the design of the clubhouse and set up the management of the golf club an experience second to none in modern times.
Archerfield is a debenture based membership which now boasts in excess of 600 members paying £30,000 to join, it's Property Sales have passed £30 million which makes Archerfield the most successfull Golf Operation of the 21st Century in Britain. | 
