Beau Welling admits he’s quirky. He embraces it. Stop Welling — a golf course architect who helped his pal Tiger Woods put the finishing touches on both highly acclaimed Bluejack National outside Houston and Payne’s Valley at Big Cedar Lodge near Branson, Missouri — and you’re likely to get an earful on a topic that…
Tiger Woods will tee it up next week in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst, but in addition to practicing his golf game, the former World No. 1 took a recent detour to Utah for his other job as golf course architect. Woods, along with design consultant Beau Welling (who runs a successful design firm of…
Architect Beau Welling doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty during the course of a project. Miguel Ángel Jiménez, the cigar-smoking, Rioja-swilling Spaniard who wears his red-brown hair in a ponytail and engages in pre-round warm-up routines that have him gyrating like an exotic dancer, is often referred to as the most interesting man in golf….
