GTC Chairman Donald Steel receives recognition for his work on a golf course renovation project in the States

Golf Magazine USA has just released its 2010 rankings for the Best New Golf Courses and Best Renovated Courses of the year.  Gaunt Golf Design is proud to announce that Greensboro Country Club (Carlson Farm Course) has been named the 'Best Renovation of the Year' out of approximately 700 courses that were completed or redesigned in 2010 - Gaunt Golf Design's first joint design collaboration with renowned British Golf Course Architect, Donald Steel.

Since its 1909 inception, Greensboro Country Club has been the most prestigious golf institution in town, but its Carlson Farm Course was never a source of great pride.

The suburban 1963 Ellis Maples design was intended to be a meaty, modern alternative to the club's shorter Donald Ross course at its downtown facility, but Carlson Farm failed to take advantage of its potential.

Forty years after the club acquired the course, it enlisted Donald Steel for an extreme makeover. Ably assisted by Jonathan Gaunt, Steel transformed a tired 6,914-yard, par-71 layout into a 7,302-yard, par-72 funfest.

Two new par 3s, the 5th and the 14th; completely rebuilt greens and bunkers; new zoysia grass fairways; and dramatic alterations to seven other holes have infused the Farm with the kind of challenge and playability that can compete with any course in the region. In a year when Old Macdonald captures top new course honours, it's only fitting that the renovation award goes to the Farm.