ASGCA elects Brian Costello as new president

Brian Costello, ASGCA, of Belmont, Calif., and JMP Golf Design Group, is the new president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA). ASGCA members elected Costello to the position at the organization’s recent 78th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Costello graduated from the University of California-Davis in 1983 with a degree in Landscape Architecture. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Costello’s father introduced him to the game of golf at the age of eight. He soon became a caddy and competitive golfer, exposed to public and private golf courses throughout the Bay Area. This early exposure to the game and the historical courses of his home strongly influenced Costello’s fondness for classic and traditional layouts.

After college, Costello joined Hargreaves Associates, a San Francisco-based landscape architecture and planning firm. In 1989, Costello joined JMP Golf Design Group and became a Principal of the firm in 1994.

Some of his noteworthy designs around the world include:

• Whiskey Creek Golf Club, Ijamsville, Md.;
• Callippe Preserve Golf Course, Pleasanton, Calif.;
• Palo Alto (Calif.) Hills Golf & Country Club;
• The Gorge at Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Wash.;
• Blackstone Golf & Resort, Jeju, Korea;
• Blackstone Golf Club, Icheon, Korea;
• 360° Country Club, Yeoju, Korea;
• Belnatio Golf Club, Tokamachi, Japan;
• Nasu Chifuriko, Tochigi, Japan;
• Golden Palm Country Club, Kagoshima, Japan;
• and Fazenda da Grama Golf Club, Itupeva, São Paulo, Brazil.

“ASGCA members are ambassadors of the game, whether we are crossing county lines, state lines or international date lines,” Costello said. “I always considered it a responsibility to represent myself, my firm, and by extension, the ASGCA in the best light. Having the ‘comma ASGCA’ following your name has value. Having the ASGCA letters and logo on your work product, business card, letterhead, and social media presence have value. It identifies a significant achievement and is representative of the favorable impact that our membership has on the golf industry.”

As a registered landscape architect in California, Costello became an ASGCA member in 2001. He and his wife, Sandra, live in Belmont, Calif. He is a father to two sons and stepfather to one daughter and two sons.

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