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This content was first published in <\/em>Golf Journal, a quarterly print publication exclusively for USGA Members. To be among the first to receive <\/em>Golf Journal and to learn how you can ensure a strong future for the game, become a USGA Member today<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gil Hanse is on the phone from his home in rural Nebraska. It\u2019s a rare time when he\u2019s actually there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of depressing to talk about,\u201d Hanse said, mixing sigh and laughter. \u201cBut I\u2019m on the road something like 300 days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pauses, seemingly trying to grasp the number, to comprehend the places he\u2019s been and the golf courses he\u2019s touched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHome is wherever we\u2019re working on projects,\u201d said Hanse, whose wife of 38 years, Tracey, is almost always wandering from place to place with him. \u201cIt\u2019s a nomadic existence, but one that works for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can be overwhelming, especially when you consider all the iconic layouts that have Hanse\u2019s fingerprints on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, no, right now, he\u2019s, in fact, distracted by an airplane overheard. He heard the noise, saw the thing circling and cannot quite figure out what it\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE THAN A THOUSAND MILES <\/strong>and a time zone away, there is an endless string of beeps as big machines crawl all over the place. The chirping never ceases \u2014 a sound that stretches across the sweeping, historic property at Baltusrol Golf Club<\/a> in Springfield, N.J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanse restored the Lower Course of this 36-hole A.W. Tillinghast<\/a> masterpiece during the pandemic, and now all these big machines are helping him work his restoration magic on the Upper Course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To an outsider, one who doesn\u2019t grasp the work, detail and precision with which Hanse goes about building, shaping and restoring courses as one of the world\u2019s foremost golf architects, this might seem like mayhem. But chaos seems to be the background music of Gil Hanse\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you were here six months ago, it looked like a bomb went off,\u201d said Kevin Vitale, Baltusrol\u2019s general manager and chief operating officer. \u201cThere were 50 trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one recent point of the Upper restoration, Baltusrol director of grounds Greg Boring said, Hanse had nearly 100 people working on the property. That doesn\u2019t include the 25-30 people from Boring\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To others, it can be maddening, a bewildering puzzle that seems impossible to put back together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve stood up on some of these vistas for nearly 40 years,\u201d said Rick Shea, a longtime Baltusrol member and former president of the club. \u201cI never saw what Gil would instinctively see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"Kevin
\n Gil Hanse, in foreground, consulted more than 5,000 pieces of documentation at Baltusrol.<\/span>\n \n USGA\/Jason E. Miczek<\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n

HANSE HAS STARTED FROM SCRATCH<\/strong> with original design projects. He has done a host of renovations. But his most noteworthy work comes with restorations, where the task is to find the original plan and bring it back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at the stunning list of places that have entrusted him with unearthing the soul of their golf course \u2014 Merion, Winged Foot, Oakmont, Oakland Hills, Olympic and The Los Angeles Country Club, just to name a few. Each place had faith in him to rediscover the plan laid forth by Donald Ross<\/a> or Alister Mackenzie<\/a> or C.B. Macdonald or Seth Raynor and make it relevant to the modern game. At Baltusrol, Hanse went through the archives \u2014 more than 5,000 pieces of documentation \u2014 in search of Tillinghast\u2019s intent, which had been scraped away over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you look at the aerials from the 1930s, this place did not resemble that one bit,\u201d Boring said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baltusrol has hosted 18 major championships, seven U.S. Opens among them (second to Oakmont, which hosts its 10th in 2025). In 2023, after the Lower Course restoration, it hosted the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship. The PGA Championship will return for a third time in 2029. With that in mind, Hanse was charged with digging through the minutiae and uncovering the Baltusrol that Tillinghast intended when he embarked on this massive project, which marked the first simultaneous design and construction of 36 holes in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a sense of stewardship, trying to preserve, protect, restore elements that have been either lost or altered over time on the courses of these great architects,\u201d said Hanse, who takes on only three new projects a year. \u201cSo it\u2019s something that we embrace going in \u2014 researching and studying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pored over the endless documentation acquired over decades by Baltusrol\u2019s exhaustive history committee. He talked to members, who knew the place far better than he ever could. Then he laid out a plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was really our responsibility to the club and our responsibility to the original architect \u2014 they are going to be the guiding forces behind everything we do,\u201d Hanse said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanse made his intentions clear \u2014 the work at Baltusrol would be about Tillinghast, not Hanse. It\u2019s his hallmark principle in restorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight from the get-go, he said it\u2019s going to be a sympathetic restoration, and we\u2019re going to go back to Tillinghast\u2019s design and design intent,\u201d said Matt Wirths, Baltusrol\u2019s president and master restoration plan committee chair. \u201cThat\u2019s what attracted us to Gil. He said it was Tillinghast\u2019s name on the scorecard, not his.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This wasn\u2019t just about restoring two historic golf courses. It was also about making sure all 36 holes were positioned for years to come \u2014 through better drainage, the installation of an HVAC system for greens called PrecisionAire and the acknowledgement that technology will forever impact how a golf course plays. It would be ready for major championships, but so too would it be pristine on a random Tuesday in the middle of the summer after it rained for a week straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these people and machines were working to establish the future while still adhering to the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe restoration was about getting back to our true DNA, and what A.W. designed and to hopefully have a path to keep us there for a long time,\u201d said Ryan Fountaine, Baltusrol\u2019s director of golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two courses have distinct personalities. The Lower Course is more noteworthy to the public; the Upper Course is the favorite of the membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"The
\n The 2nd hole on the Lower Course. <\/span>\n \n Evan Schiller<\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n

\u201c[The Upper] has hosted a major before, but it just doesn\u2019t have the space to handle the crowds now,\u201d Vitale said. \u201cIf it could handle the crowds, there would be a major on the Upper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Gil took the job, he said something along the lines of \u2018I am going to enjoy working on the Lower, but I can\u2019t wait to get to the Upper.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanse quickly seconded that assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe changes on the Lower were more substantive and the Upper was closer to Tillinghast\u2019s vision,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I think embellishing or improving those subtleties on the Upper are going to be truly impactful to the way the outside world views the Upper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word \u201ctopography\u201d kept coming up, how the hills and terrain and undulations made the Upper a shotmaker\u2019s course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a better piece of ground,\u201d Hanse said. \u201cI think the holes on the Upper are more striking than the holes on the Lower. I think [the par-5] eighth green, the way it sits up there, is one of the most beautiful compositions I\u2019ve seen Tillinghast do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanse went about his work, first on the Lower Course, then on the Upper Course. Uncertainty can be uncomfortable, especially with so much at stake \u2014 history, tradition, reputation, money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the Lower there were a lot more questions,\u201d Boring said. \u201cWe were new to this. We didn\u2019t know. [The membership] thought it knew what was going to happen. Then they played it and experienced it and were pleased and happy with it. When it came to the Upper, it was, \u2018Go repeat what you just did.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, despite having experienced how Hanse worked and falling in love with the finished product on the Lower, if the membership had questions during the restoration of the Upper, it asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy experience has been that there\u2019s no stupid question,\u201d Wirths said. \u201cGil always takes the time to explain his methodology and the rationale that forms his opinions. It\u2019s because we value that rationale, methodology and opinion, that it was really for us to deliver that messaging to our membership, as opposed to us telling him what we wanted. The toughest thing is to go in with a blank slate and defer to an expert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t always happen. At Baltusrol, they let Gil Hanse be Gil Hanse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have the expertise, he does,\u201d Shea said. \u201cWe are welcome to have our own opinions, but it\u2019s his call. He is the person we\u2019ve asked to guide us. Very early on we had a couple things that came up, and the procedure became clear to us: Gil was going to make the call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey, you don\u2019t ask Picasso to paint you a picture and tell him what colors to use or select the grocery list when Wolfgang Puck invites you over for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s inspiring to watch him work,\u201d Boring said. \u201cHe knows what he wants. He\u2019s very demanding with what he wants. But he never has to show he\u2019s demanding with what he wants. We basically went through $40 million worth of projects in the last five years. I\u2019m anti-drama. And if you\u2019re anti-drama, you want Gil Hanse running the operation. Gil\u2019s not about ego. There is not a person who has a bigger name, and you would not know it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every once in a while, a member will be wandering the property and do a double take. Could it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s hands-on,\u201d Boring said, highlighting one of the qualities that makes Hanse in such high demand. \u201cEverybody is amazed when they see Gil on a bulldozer. I\u2019m like, what do you think he does when he comes here? He\u2019s not pointing fingers and telling people what to do. If Gil\u2019s happy, it\u2019s because he\u2019s in a dozer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"Shaymus
\n Hanse, center, at work on Baltusrol’s Upper Course with colleagues Shaymus Maley, left, and Kevin Murphy.<\/span>\n \n USGA\/Jason E. Miczek<\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n

THIS COMING MAY, <\/strong>nearly seven years after he was contracted to bring Tillinghast\u2019s intent back to life, and five years after the work started, the heavy lifting from Hanse and his team will be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wirths said it took him a year or so to relearn the Lower. He expects, given the nuances of the Upper, it might take him and the membership a little longer this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA year to relearn the course, and it will take about two or three years to learn those greens,\u201d he said. \u201cOr, at least, that\u2019s the excuse I\u2019ll use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the biggest adjustment might not be with the eyes, but with the ears. One by one, they laugh at the question: How happy will they be when the work is done, when the beeps are silenced, when the property is quiet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI made the mistake of having this conversation with Gil and said, \u2018It\u2019s been great to have you here, but it\u2019ll be great when you\u2019re gone.\u2019 I probably shouldn\u2019t have said it that way,\u201d Vitale said. \u201cI said it as a joke. I think we are going to be the [object of] envy by having two golf courses at this level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the end game with anyone who signs up to have Gil Hanse dive into history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are going back to our roots,\u201d Vitale said. \u201cWe aren\u2019t doing something that is changing us, making us different. We are going back to what made us who are in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Hanse, a man who travels so much, who is entrusted to do his work on so many hallowed pieces of ground, is it hard to just walk away when the job is complete?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSomebody once said Ben Crenshaw\u2019s line is that he cries at shopping mall openings,\u201d Hanse said. \u201cI\u2019m not quite that emotional. But yes, because we spend so much time on our projects, they\u2019re all very personal. The other part of it is the relationships you build with the people, the leadership at the club, the leadership on the staff. Those are things that are going to stay with me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we leave this property, the courses seen by these members will be the closest to what Tillinghast created for any generation of members since the courses debuted. There\u2019s a great deal of pride and satisfaction in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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