Tom Fazio
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"Thomas Fazio", ASGCA is a golf course architect.

Fazio graduated in 1962 from Lansdale Catholic High School and was inducted into its "Hall of Fame" in 2007. He began his career in golf course design with his family's firm in suburban Philadelphia, which he left in the 1960s; he established his own firm in Jupiter, Florida in 1972. He is the nephew of the late George Fazio, who often credited Tom with jump-starting his own career in golf course architecture.

Fazio has designed more than 120 courses and has more courses ranked among the top 100 in the U.S. than anyone else in the business. His individual honors include Best Modern Day Golf Course Architect, which he received from Golf Digest Magazine three times. In 1995, Fazio became only the second course architect to receive the highest recognition awarded by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America - The Old Tom Morris Award.

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Not to get sacrilegious, but it's the Sistine Chapel of golf. When you go to Rome, don't you have to go to the Sistine Chapel? When you go to the Masters you have to go to the oak tree. This setting is special.

It kind of brings a lump to my throat. I just wish I could have all my kids here to see it.

My guess would be, I don't think anything will happen just because of a 68-year-old man. What I read into it is that a 68-year-old has just proved that what's been done [to the course] over the years is not over the top. I never agreed with that theory, and I think we're seeing that.

I've been doing this for a long time. I'm used to hearing criticism.