Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Robert Trent Jones Jr., born on July 24, 1939 in Montclair, New Jersey, is an American golf course architect. He grew up in a family of architects: his father, Robert Trent Jones Sr., was one of the defining designers of the twentieth century, and his younger brother Rees Jones works in the same field. At Yale he studied geology while majoring in history and American studies, and after a year at Stanford Law School he joined his father’s office and took up design. Spyglass Hill in California is one of the courses he worked on under his father.

In 1972 he left his father’s practice and set up his own firm, Robert Trent Jones II. Based today in Palo Alto, California, it has built more than 300 courses in over 50 countries on six continents. His best-known work is Chambers Bay in Washington State, which staged the 2015 U.S. Open, and in 1994 he designed Russia’s first golf course, Moscow Country Club. The principle he sets out for himself is to listen to the land: a great course, he has said, is a place where nature has already prepared the canvas, and his own job is to find its secrets and show them.

His work in Southeast Asia goes back to the 1970s. Navatanee Golf Course in Bangkok, which opened in 1973, hosted the World Cup in 1975, and Pondok Indah in Jakarta, opened in 1976, held the same event in 1983. The PIK course at Damai Indah Golf in Jakarta, opened in 1992, was the venue for the 2022 Indonesian Open. Among the courses listed on GoGolf, seven in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are his work, and the following five can be booked through GoGolf.

Jones Jr. courses you can book on GoGolf

• Damai Indah Golf – PIK Course (North Jakarta, Indonesia) — opened 1992, host of the 2022 Indonesian Open
• Navatanee Golf Course (Bangkok, Thailand) — opened 1973, host of the 1975 World Cup
• Green Valley Country Club (Samut Prakan, Thailand) — opened 1988
• Phoenix Gold Golf Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand) — formerly President Country Club, 1993
• Eastern Star Country Club and Resort (Rayong, Thailand) — opened 1992

GoGolf also covers Pondok Indah Padang Golf in Jakarta (opened 1976, host of the 1983 World Cup) and The Mines Resort & Golf Club in Seri Kembangan, Malaysia (opened 1994, host of the 1999 World Cup). These two courses are not currently open for booking through GoGolf. Tee times and rates for a given day can be checked on each course page or in the GoGolf app.

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