About

Lyne Morrison Golf Design delivers creative course design solutions that lift the playing experience, encourage return play, and address maintenance and sustainability needs. Practice work ranges from large-scale planning to targeted design tasks.

Owner and principal, Lyne Morrison consults with forward-looking clubs looking to refresh their course and be more welcoming and inclusive by exploring evolving ways to play the game. Lyne has written extensively on golf course set-up for the slow swing-speed golfer and presented to Australian Golf Course Superintendents at their annual industry conference.

Lyne has three decades of project experience across international, national and regional works. A Full Member of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects and a lifelong club golfer, Lyne Morrison is Australia's first female golf course architect.

Early Career

As a junior golfer, Lyne developed an early love for the game and its courses. Keen to learn more, she received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Canberra University after completing her thesis in Golf Course Design.

Lyne began her career in Sydney with the highly regarded American design firm Belt Collins. She moved to the Honolulu head office, and the Nelson & Wright golf course architecture division of the company, and later Nelson & Haworth in Singapore. During this time, Lyne gained a wealth of course design experience on large-scale residential and resort projects located throughout the Asia-Pacific region. American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) members, Robin Nelson and Rodney Wright, generously mentored Lyne in golf course planning, design and construction at this informative time.

Giving Back to Golf

An involved club golfer, Lyne continues to give back to the game.

• Full Member, Society of Australian Golf Course Architects (SAGCA).

• Advocate for improved playability for Women and Senior Golfers.

• Contributor, Golf Australia National Facilities Plan.

• Member, Golf NSW, USGA Course Rating Team.

• Central Southern Golf Association, Committee & Junior Promotions Officer.

• Club Pennant representative.

• Mentor to novice women and juniors.

• Green Committee member.

• Women's Committee member.

• Pro bono golf design works for Junior Golf Australia.

• Volunteer and caddie, 2013 Australian Women's Open Championship.

• Volunteer and caddie, ACTEW AGL Canberra Women's Classic 2009, 2010, 2011.