Jerry N. Slack & Associates, Inc. provides all phases of golf course planning and design from development land planning and golf course routing to the graphic articulation of grading concepts, drainage, individual green design, and on-site construction management.

These finely detailed and high quality plans define concepts that incorporate environmentally sensitive design and playability with features that benefit maintenance and the economic effects of golf course operations. The culmination of vision, planning, drawing, and finally building, produces the typical Jerry Slack design – an efficient, quality product that enhances the natural beauty and aesthetics of the golf course site and its surroundings while providing an
exceptional golf experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• President/Golf Course Designer
  Jerry N. Slack & Associates, Inc., Tulsa, OK, 1990-present

• Golf Course Design Associate
  Donald R. Sechrest, Inc., G.C. Arch. & Consultant,
  KC,MO, 85-90

• VP of Mktg. & Business Development
  Ochsner, Hare&Hare, City Planning & Landscape Arch., KC, MO, 84-85

• Private Consultant
  Land Planning & Real Estate Devel.; Nashville, TN and Lake Tahoe, CA, 72-84

• Director of Planning
  Nashville Area Council of Governments, 70-72

• Chief Planner of Transportation & Community Development
  St. Louis County Dept. of Planning, 68-70

• Principal Planner, Land Planning & Community Development
  Oklahoma City Dept. of Planning, 66-68

EDUCATION

• Masters Degree in Regional and City Planning, University of Oklahoma
  Bachelor of Arts, Oklahoma State University

• Mr. Slack has extensive design experience gathered over thirty-five years of consulting practice at all levels of design and development planning. His in-depth educational and professional background, from architecture and site planning to large-scale land planning and urban design, has been tempered with significant emphasis on economics and the physical sciences, all key ingredients in the pursuit of cost effectiveness and natural design.

• Jerry’s passion for golf started early. From the age of ten and throughout his schooling he caddied at Southern Hills and Tulsa Country Clubs. He began his playing career just as early and won several amateur and junior titles over the years. He was a walk-on at Oklahoma State University during the mid 1960s and has been a student of the game ever since.

• For the past twenty years he has held responsible project management positions for over ninety golf course construction projects across the United States. As a “hands-on” architect he has become keenly aware of the impact of environmentally sensitive design on maintenance and the economic effects of golf course operations. He utilizes a three-dimensional sketching technique that greatly enhances the communication of his design concepts to golf course shapers. His exceptional skill in using this technique has high impact on the construction management phase of all projects.

• The innovative design approaches Mr. Slack brings to both new courses and emerging golf communities has earned him recognition on a national level, including:

  • Golf Digest’s “Best New Public Golf Courses” in 2008, Emerald Falls Golf Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, rated #6 on the national top ten list.

  • “Best Golfing Value in Kansas” in Golf Digest’s “Places To Play” and regularly receives a 4½ star rating in Golf Digest’s Places to Play for Quail Ridge Golf Club in Winfield, Kansas.

  • Nomination for Golf Digest’s “Best New Public Course” in 1997, and won “Best New Golf Community in Northern Virginia”, 2000 Parade of Homes, General’s Ridge in Manassas, VA.