Third-generation builder at J. Campoli & Sons, est. 1946, Bergen County, NJ. Studied architecture and art at Temple University's Rome campus. Founder of Best Clubhouse. Covering golf clubhouse architecture and luxury golf real estate.
Clubhouses
Keen designed clubhouses at Pine Valley and Aronimink, two of America's most revered private golf clubs. He also built Reynolda House for R.J. Reynolds, now a nationally recognized art museum. This week, Aronimink hosts the PGA Championship for the first time since 1962.
Clubhouses
Medinah Country Club's 120,000-square-foot clubhouse was designed in the 1920s by Richard G. Schmid, a charter club member who trained at MIT and worked under H.H. Richardson before designing Moorish Revival temples for the Shriners.
Clubhouses
The clubhouse at Cypress Point was designed by George Washington Smith, the father of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California. Smith died six months before the building opened in 1930. Steve Jobs later bought one of his houses and spent 27 years trying to demolish it.
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The clubhouse at Myopia Hunt Club was not designed to be a clubhouse. It was built in 1772 as a farmhouse for Colonel Robert Dodge, a Revolutionary War hero who fought at Bunker Hill. The club moved in, and much hasn't changed since.
Real Estate
Luxury golf real estate from the birthplace of miniature golf in Pinehurst to the Blue Monster's doorstep in Doral to the Ocean Course at Kiawah: explore this week's most exclusive golf course estates for sale as the PGA Tour returns to Trump National Doral for the Cadillac Championship.
Clubhouses
The 77,000-square-foot clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass was designed by Chapman Coyle Chapman Architects and completed in 2007, modeled after an 1888 Spanish Renaissance hotel in St. Augustine that launched the career of the firm that designed the New York Public Library.
Clubhouses
The clubhouse at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania was designed in 1911 by Furness, Evans and Company. It still hides an 1824 stone farmhouse inside it, and a two-story locker room that has watched Bobby Jones finish the Grand Slam and Ben Hogan win the 1950 U.S. Open.
Real Estate
Luxury golf real estate from Kapalua to Big Sky to Jupiter: explore this week's most exclusive golf course estates for sale, from $11.15M to $16.6M, as the PGA Tour heads to TPC Louisiana for the Zurich Classic.
Clubhouses
The Country Club's primrose yellow clubhouse in Brookline started as an 1860 farmhouse. Today it is three stories of Colonial Revival clapboard behind the 18th green, still holding a room from the original structure and a copy of the USGA charter signed in 1894.
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Francis Ouimet's childhood home at 246 Clyde Street in Brookline sits directly across the road from The Country Club. In 1913, the 20-year-old amateur walked out the front door, crossed the street, and won the U.S. Open, changing American golf forever.
Clubhouses
The Lighthouse at Harbour Town Golf Links is not a real lighthouse. Built in 1969 by developer Charles Fraser as the centerpiece of his Sea Pines marina village, locals called it Fraser's Folly. Today the candy-striped tower is the logo of Sea Pines and the backdrop of the RBC Heritage every April.
Clubhouses
The Harbour Town Clubhouse at The Sea Pines Resort was designed in 2014 by Grady Woods, a Lowcountry architect who raked bunkers at Harbour Town as a boy. Home of the RBC Heritage, the three-story Lowcountry clubhouse was demolished and rebuilt between tournaments in a 10-month construction sprint.