He said the greatest honor a shaper can receive is when he is able to meticulously duplicate the look and mystique of a course architect's design. Architects know a good shaper can make or break their courses, so they are faithful to them, employing the same shaper to create their works. Golf construction companies also know the need for reworking the ground will be minimized by employing a dependable shaper. Shoveling away at Half Moon Bay's newest links. The appeal and prestige as a shaper has its downsides.
Travel can be brutal on family life.
Shapers often work for eight months on one client site and then head off to another for another seven months. Trull, recognized as one of the best in the industry, has formed his own company in Inverness, Illinois to be close to his family. His most recent project is the Ocean Course at Half Moon Bay, which is south of San Francisco. The Arthur Hills design course is a great example of the new trend in architecture to blend the shape of the course to match the surrounding hillsides. Trull oversaw all aspects of the project, transforming the course to a 120-acre parklike setting.