Tom Doak 

Tom Doak is a golf course designer. He currently has 4 courses ranked among the top 100 in the world according to Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World list, including Pacific Dunes in Oregon, Ballyneal in Colorado [1], Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania [2] and Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand. Doak currently resides in Michigan.He was a student of golf course designer Pete Dye, although perhaps his greatest influence comes from Alister MacKenzie (whom Doak wrote a book about), designer of Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne, and consultant to Bobby Jones at Augusta National. In 2007, Doak restored Alister MacKenzie's home course, Pasatiempo, a Golf Magazine Top 100 course located in Santa Cruz, CA.