Couple Bates Golf Design

Fred Couples - PGA Tour Professional
Gene Bates - Golf Course Architect
Matt Swanson - Golf Course Architect

5606 PGA Boulevard Suite 111, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418
tel: 561-624-0808
Fax: (561) 624-4227
design@couplesbates.com | www.batesgolfgroup.com

Gene Bates

President of Bates Golf Design Group and Couples, Bates Golf Design

     Following a ten-year association with two of the golfing world’s most recognized course developers, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus, Bates stepped out of their shadows and struck out on his own in 1989. Gene’s work has been very well received, and earned “Best New Golf Course” honors from Golf Digest magazine for six of the past seven years and “Golf Architect of the Year” accolades in 2005.

     His partnership with Fred Couples in Couples/Bates Design has produced a trio of outstanding golf courses in Canada; Villa de St Jovite and Le Matrie de Mont Tremblant in Quebec and The Rise in Vernon, British Columbia.