Donald Steel

Donald Steel (b. 1937) is an English golf course architect, writer, and journalist. Educated at Fettes and Cambridge, he played cricket for Buckinghamshire and rugby at university. Steel began as golf correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph (1961–1989) and wrote for Country Life from 1983. He joined Cotton, Pennink, Lawrie and Partners in 1965 and founded Donald Steel and Co. in 1987 with Martin Ebert and Tom Mackenzie. He has advised on over 450 courses in 40+ countries and is the only architect to have advised every Open Championship venue. His designs favour strategic play and respect for traditional principles. He wrote "The Shell International Encyclopaedia of Golf" and his autobiography "Thin End of the Wedge".