TH E PR I N C I PALS
Crafter + Mogford operate two offices with Neil Crafter based in Adelaide and Paul Mogford based in Melbourne. In total Crafter +
Mogford employ eight staff including a part time administration person.
NEIL CRAFTER
Neil Crafter is a 1980 graduate of Adelaide University with a Bachelor of Architecture where he was a member of the University golf
team and was selected numerous times in the All-Australian University team. Neil has an illustrious record as an amateur golfer,
representing Australia on four occasions, including the 1984 World Amateur Teams Championship, the Eisenhower Cup. He is a
founding member of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects and has over 25 years experience as a golf course architect.
In 1997 Neil was elected President of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects and served in this position until his retirement
in 2003. Neil has been co-editor of the Society’s annual journal ‘Golf Architecture’ for 10 years, widely regarded worldwide as the
premier publication on golf course architecture.
Neil has had the invaluable experience of having competed in all the Australian Amateur Championships and Interstate Teams
Matches from 1980 to 1992, a level of amateur golf experience unmatched in practising Australian golf course architects. He was
a semi-finalist in the Amateur Championship of 1990 at Royal Queensland, losing to eventual champion Chris Gray. Additionally,
he has played in numerous State Open Championships including those of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South
Australia, and has won leading amateur honours in both the Victorian Open (1985) and the South Australian Open (a number of
times). Neil won the New Zealand Stroke-Play Championship in 1984.
PAU L M O G F O R D
Paul Mogford graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture. His final thesis explored the environmental design of golf courses, with a particular focus on the now commonplace
integration of constructed wetlands within new and existing golf course developments.
In 1994 Paul was commissioned by the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects to research both the detrimental and positive
environmental issues associated with golf courses. In addition to preparing a detailed set of research folders for the members,
Paul authored the Society’s publication ‘Golf Courses: Benefits to Community & Environment’ and holds the role of ‘Environmental
Research Officer’. It is acknowledged that the work Paul completed in this area contributed to quelling criticism from environmental
groups as well as informed them as to the many valuable contributions golf courses provide to the broader society and the
environment.
Paul is a qualified landscape architect and golf course architect, and is a full member of the Society of Australian Golf Course
Architects. He has been co-editor with Neil Crafter, since 1997, of the Society’s annual journal ‘Golf Architecture’. In 2000 Paul was
the recipient of the inaugural ‘Rainbird Grand Tour Scholarship’, one of two young architects selected worldwide. The tour enabled
Paul to visit and study many of the best courses in the United States of America, including Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, San
Francisco, Riviera, Shadow Creek, Prairie Dunes, Cherry Hills and Colonial Golf Clubs. In 2010 Paul has attended the World Forum
of Golf Architecture in St. Andrews as well as studying many of Scotland’s finest courses. More recently Paul attended ASGCA’s
Classic Golf in America conference in and around NY playing; Pine Valley, Shinnecock Hills, The National Golf Links of America and
many more fine courses in the region.
PAG E 0 3
GREEN ACRES GOLF CLUB
MASTER PLAN REPORT
TH E PR I N C I PALS