Career & La Quinta work
Tom Fazio is the most commercially dominant private-club architect of the last forty years. His routings are characterized by wide fairways, sculpted bunkering, generous lake margins, and an obsessive attention to the second-shot view corridor — typically he wants the mountains, water, or hero-shot element revealed after the tee shot rather than before it. His La Quinta projects are The Madison Club (mid-2000s, contemporary California estate community) and The Quarry at La Quinta (mid-1990s, built on a former rock quarry and notably more vertical than Madison). Between the two, La Quinta has one of the largest concentrations of Fazio Coachella Valley work, and the contrast between his Madison routing and his Quarry routing is one of the most instructive case studies in his catalog.
Full long-form profile in development. Verified course-by-course breakdowns coming soon.