Montco born golf architect Tom Fazio becoming a course owner

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Tom Fazio has joined Colony 9, LLC as an investor in purchasing Forest Creek Golf Club in Pinehurst, N.C. The transaction was completed Dec. 28 for an undisclosed price. Fazio, right, is pictured above at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club. (Image courtesy wikimedia.org)

Tom Fazio is a Norristown native. During his teenage years the family moved to Lansdale and he graduated from Lansdale Catholic High School.

He then went to work for his famous uncle, George Fazio, an accomplished professional golfer who became the first PGA Tour player to enter the business of golf course design, Tony Leodora wrote in a column for The Times Herald. 


Tom Fazio has joined Colony 9, LLC as an investor in purchasing Forest Creek Golf Club in Pinehurst, N.C. The transaction was completed Dec. 28 for an undisclosed price, and it marks the first time Fazio has invested in one of his own creations, according to golfadvisor.com.

“Forest Creek is one of the truly elite golfing experiences in this country,” said Fazio, who also did nearby Pinehurst Nos. 4 and 8. “I was given carte blanche to adapt the two courses to the majestic, rolling North Carolina Sandhills topography and the result was that the layout of each challenging but playable course does not resemble the other.”

Fazio’s Pinehurst No. 4, which he rebuilt on top a course originally designed by Donald Ross, is currently closed and being redesigned by Gil Hanse, and will reopen this fall.

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