Graham
Cooke
B.Sc.L.A.
Golf Course Architect / President
Graham Cooke obtained his Bachelor's Degree in
Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University in 1972.
After apprenticing with Howard Watson for a couple of years, he
formed his own golf course design company in 1973. Since then,
Graham Cooke & Associates has designed and overseen the construction
of over 100 golf courses and has provided golf course design and
renovation services for over 600 clients located around the world.
Graham is also an accomplished accomplished
amateur golfer having won numerous national and international
tournaments.
e-mail:
grahamcooke@grahamcooke.ca
Wayne
S. Carleton B.L.A.
Golf Course Architect
Wayne S.
Carleton obtained an Associate Diploma in Horticulture from
the University of Guelph in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Landscape
Architecture in 1991. He has worked alongside Graham Cooke ever since.
In 1991, Wayne moved to British Columbia to head up GCA's Western Office.
Together with Graham Cooke
and the rest of the GCA Team, Wayne provides golf course architectural
services to clients in western North America under the banner of Cooke
Carleton International.
e-mail:
cci@grahamcooke.ca
Golf Course Architect
Yannick Pilon obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Montreal in 1998 and has worked alongside Graham Cooke for the past 13 years in the design and development of GCA golf courses located across North America and Europe.
e-mail: ypilon@grahamcooke.ca
Corey
Black B.Sc.L.A.
Golf Course Architect
Corey Black obtained his Bachelor's Degree in
Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts in 2002
and has worked with Graham Cooke ever since providing golf course design
services.
e-mail:
cblack@grahamcooke.ca
Candido
Besso
Project Manager / Construction Co-ordinator - EUROPE
/ BRAZIL
Candido Besso has worked in the Italian golf
industry for over 35 years. Working alongside Graham Cooke since the
late 1980s, Candido Besso is an important part of the GCA Team providing
GCA golf course design and construction co-ordination services to our
clients in both Europe and Brazil
e-mail:
golfland@esanet.it
