Frank Pont

After qualifying as a civil engineer from Delft Technical University, Frank worked for Shell before earning an MBA from the University of Chicago. This was followed by a career in the consulting sector and investment banking, culminating in him overseeing Deutsche Bank’s global telecoms team in London.

In 2001, he left London to study golf course architecture at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. There, his specialist studies were in the work of Harry Colt and Tom Simpson. Post studies, he undertook an apprenticeship with David McLay Kidd in Ireland and Hawaii working on both the Powerscourt West and Nanea developments with DMK.

In 2003, Frank founded his own design practice, which has steadily grown in stature ever since. Currently he is working with over 30 Harry Colt, Tom Simpson and Frank Pennink designed courses across Europe in order to help restore their original strategies and styles. He has also built 7 new courses, one of which, De Swinkelsche, was named best modern course in the Netherlands by Darius Oliver of Planet Golf fame. Frank is the retained advisor to seven clients in Gold World’s Top 50 Courses for Continental Europe, six of which were originally designed by Harry Colt.