Donald Steel
Donald Maclennan Arklay Steel (born 23 August 1937) is a former golfer and is a noted golf course designer, as well as being a writer and journalist. Educated at Fettes College and Christ's College, Cambridge,[1] he has designed a large number of golf courses[2] or modifications to existing courses, mostly in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[3] Several late 20th century and early 21st century golf course architects worked under Steel in their early careers, among them Martin Ebert, Jonathan Gaunt, Tom Mackenzie.
Steel has also written a number of books about golf. He was golf correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph from its launch in 1961 until 1989, and has written for Country Life since 1983.[4] In 1957, he played cricket for Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship, making six appearances.[5]
Golf courses (new)
[edit | edit source]- Abaco Club
- Amarilla
- Dolce Campo Real
- Aquidneck Club
- Barnham Broom (Hill)
- Barseback (Pine)
- Bom Sucesso
- Boothferry Golf Club
- Bovey Castle
- Bradfield
- Byneset Golf Club[6]
- Carnegie Course at Skibo Castle
- Château des Vigiers
- Charterhouse
- Harrow School
- Radley
- Rye Hill
- Mill Ride Ascot
- St. Andrews (Strathtyrum),[7]
- Victoria Golf and Country Resort, Digana, Sri Lanka[8]
- Wellington
Golf courses (renovations)
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External links
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- 1937 births
- Living people
- People from Hillingdon
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hillingdon
- People educated at Fettes College
- Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
- English male golfers
- British golf course architects
- English cricketers
- Buckinghamshire cricketers
- English male journalists
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English cricket biography, 1930s birth stubs
- British golf biography stubs