What was the first golf course CEC designed?
Ezell: Eastwood was under construction when we first came together as a team and the field debates are still memorable to all of us. George and I learned early on that the soft spoken man we call ‘Dad’ is slow to object to our whim and fancy, but when you hear “that’s not quite the way I would have done it,” you better change it and change it quick. That’s as close as you will ever hear him say you’re screwing up! Our first real paying job was the renovation of Ocala Municipal. We designed a course near Ashville, North Carolina called Pheasant Run, which got underway but was never completed. Most of your golf courses are accompaniments to real estate developments. Do you find that it is more difficult to design the types of courses you prefer given the land limitations typically imposed in such an operation vs. designing a golf course over more or less a blank canvas, i.e. Forest Lake? Ezell: We have found over the years that the best overall communities with golf result when the devel
