As a four-year-old, Jay Blasi drew golf holes in crayon on restaurant placemats. At 18, he told his local newspaper that his career goal was to design a course that would host a U.S. Open. Most kids' dreams don't survive contact with adulthood. Blasi's did: while still in his twenties, he was the project architect on Chambers Bay, the muscular links built on a reclaimed sand-and-gravel mine above Puget Sound that hosted the 2015 U.S. Open — the first newly built course in 45 years to land our national championship.
So how does that happen? How does a golf-obsessed kid actually become a golf course architect?
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