Welcome to McDonald Design Group, where we deliver inspired and unique design solutions tailored to needs. Our innovative approach, combined with a value-added design/build model, ensures you receive unparalleled value and exceptional results. Let us transform your vision into reality with our creative expertise. Join us on this journey to elevate your golf facility.
Renovation Design
Comprehensive Golf Facility Master Planning
McDonald Design Group specializes in formulizing comprehensive improvement programs for golf facilities of all types. These programs are often long-range improvement visions that can be implemented over a series of years improving the client’s cash flow, limiting golfing disruption, and to maximize the club’s staff involvement throughout the process. Regardless of the implementation program selected, McDonald’s planning documents are rich in detail to best communicate the proposed improvements with the client. Our Master Planning process is a truly collaborative effort between the membership, club staff, and McDonald’s team to ensure that the client’s goals and needs are met.
Smaller-Scale Course Improvement Planning
A more narrowly focused study is often more beneficial for the client. These studies may include single or multiple holes, tee, bunker, grassing, or drainage improvements. McDonald has also completed many focused 18-Hole studies of specific agronomic issues, tree management issues, teeing grounds, cart circulation improvements, and clubhouse campus design.
Historic Research and Restoration Design
McDonald Design Group respects the designers of the past, as we work tirelessly to uphold the design principles for which they adhered to. We enjoy researching the history of the facilities we work with to ensure that this history is respected and preserved when appropriate.
Practice Facility Planning
There has been an incredible increase in the value of a club’s practice facility as a means to attract and then retain new members given today’s market conditions. Practice facility design is a specialized skill set, and McDonald Design Group is a leader in creating dynamic, attractive, usable, and maintainable practice facilities.
New Course Construction
New Course Design
ASGCA members golf course architects understand the areas to be addressed by the developer for every new golf course. From the initial selection of a Golf Course Architect, to land entitlements, golf course maintenance requirements, master planning, building, financing, and ultimately golf course operations, McDonald Design Group can help developers successfully navigate the maze of details involved with creating a successful golf project.
Surveying and Mapping
Green Surface Slope Analysis
With fast greens being a modern-day standard, many greens built years ago feature slopes that are too severe to cut a cup. With McDonald’s hyper-accurate surveying technology, we can perform slope analysis studies that provide a detailed, color-coded analysis of cupping potential given today’s green speeds. This data allows us to create functional green surface adjustment plans if necessary.
GPS Base Map Creation
Designers of the past, such as Emmet, MacKenzie, Raynor, & Strong, undertook their own surveying and mapmaking of courses they admired and to create plans from which to work. Not unlike them, we have the capability to survey & map all existing features of a course, including topography, to create working drawings. Through modern means of GPS technology, we can construct a comprehensive and accurate digital map of a facility that is a useful tool in the design and planning of course improvements or can be beneficial for a Golf Course Superintendent’s daily use and application calculations.
Irrigation and As-Built Mapping
Our GPS and Robotic Total Station technology can also be used to document irrigation, drainage, and other utilities. Accurate as-built mapping is an invaluable tool for a Club and Golf Course Superintendent.
Design/Build Integration
Field Design
Our design/build model offers an incredible level of control over all steps of the construction process. McDonald Design Group’s significant investment in directly managing both the construction and design of our projects is invaluable to our clients, as it assures them the details of the work are being executed as planned.
Detailed Construction Documents and Specifications
While McDonald Design Group believes that extensive hands-on field design is required to successfully complete each project within our design/build approach, we also take great care in completing detailed plan sets and specifications that outline the proposed improvements. These drawings aid in our communication with the client, outlining what will be constructed and providing the baseline for our detailed computerized quantity take-offs and cost projections.
Project Consultancy, Quantity Take-Off Analysis, Budgeting, and Scheduling
Long before ground is broken, McDonald Design Group produces detailed quantity take-offs, cost projections, and construction timetables for the completion for each project. Our seamless affiliation with McDonald & Sons reassures our clients that they are receiving a realistic and clear vision of their considered project.
Meet The Team
Just a Few of Our Clients
