Biography

Golf course designer, Bob Cupp, combined his talent in golf and art to create over 150 projects in his career. Cupp was originally a club professional before moving into golf course architecture after a call from Jack Nicklaus. His most acclaimed courses, Crosswater and Pumpkin Ridge, are both located in Oregon and are ranked in the top 100 public courses in America by Golf Digest. Pumpkin Ridge has hosted the U.S. Women's Open and currently hosts an LPGA Tour event.

Cupp collaborated with several tour professionals during his career, including Tom Kite and Jerry Pate. He worked with Kite to create Liberty National, which hosted a PGA Tour event. With Pate, he designed Old Waverly, the no. 1 course in Mississippi, and worked on two courses at Indianwood in Michigan, hosting multiple U.S. Women's Opens and a U.S. Senior Open.

Four of Cupp's courses feature in the top 100 in Canada on ScoreGolf.com. One of these, Beacon Hall near Toronto, was the second course he built on his own after going solo in 1984. The first course he built independently, Port Armor (now Reynolds Landing), was named as the second-best course in Georgia by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Cupp is also an accomplished painter, furniture builder, blacksmith, and author. His background varies considerably from other golf course designers, having previously worked in advertising and serving in the army. He is known as something of a Renaissance man, with musical abilities including guitar and cello. He wrote the acclaimed novel, 'The Edict, a novel of the beginnings of golf'.