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Golf Course Architect
Donald Maclennan Arklay Steel (born 23 August 1937 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England) is a distinguished figure in golf, known for his seamless fusion of high‑level playing, prolific writing, and golf course architecture. Educated at Fettes College and Christ’s College, Cambridge (BA in Agriculture, 1960), he began his career as the Sunday Telegraph’s golf correspondent (1961–1989), later serving as a writer for Country Life and authoring or editing numerous books on the game.
Pivoting to architecture, his involvement began in 1965 alongside Ken Cotton, Frank Pennink and Charles Lawrie; he became a partner in their firm in 1969 and founded Donald Steel & Co Ltd in 1987. He is uniquely credited as the only architect to have advised on every venue of The Open Championship, and he prepared the master plan for St Andrews, notably redesigning the Eden and Jubilee courses and creating Strathtyrum, opened in the 1990s.
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