Tyler J. Rae

Tyler Rae, a University of Kentucky graduate of Landscape Architecture, has been immersed in the Game of Golf and its playing fields since a very young age. Prior to operating his own firm, Tyler worked with noted Golf Architect and Golden Age restoration expert Ron Prichard for eight years, in the design office with Golf Architect Keith Foster for three years, as well as out in the field with Coore & Crenshaw. Tyler also ran and shaped multi-million dollar projects in the dirt for an International Golf Course Builder for four years, learning how courses come to life in the field. During that span, he built new courses and restored older golf courses for designers such as Tom Doak and Bruce Hepner, Robert Trent Jones Jr., Rees Jones, Tom Fazio, John Fought and past Augusta National Superintendent Billy Fuller.

Since his first job in the golf industry in 1998, Tyler has carefully crafted his career and built a design company which now has a workload that employs between 15+ full-time and part-time staff members:

Tyler J. Rae – President
Sheila Rae – Vice President/HR/Accounts Payable
Jim Ryan, Jr. – Lead Design Associate/Expert Shaper
Tim Lewis – Design Associate
Sean Rariden – Design Assistant
Matt Fauerbach – Owner’s Rep/Lead Project Manager
Tim Furness – Lead Shaper/Project Site Superintendent
Barry Emens – Forestry Consultant/Arborist
Paul Gardner – Detail Shaper
John Ellsworth – Detail Shaper
Mike Stine – Earthworks Shaper
Kyle Spieth – Earthworks Shaper
Kirk Spieth – Earthworks Shaper
Ben Warren – Green/Bunker Expert Shaper
Dan Moore – Consultant

Tyler’s emphasis continues to focus on Donald Ross, Seth Raynor, William Flynn, A.W. Tillinghast and other Golden Age Architects’ restoration and renovation work while also building and designing new golf courses from scratch.

When Tyler isn’t working, you can usually find him with his wife and two children at his home club or on the road walking and playing golf courses he hasn’t seen to view their architectural merit and varied properties. To date, he has played 98 out of the Top 100 Courses in the World and all of the Top 100 Courses in the US and has been a panelist for GOLF Magazine, Golfweek Magazine, LINKS Magazine and many other publications. He has visited over 2,000 golf courses in places such as the British Isles, Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Canada and South America and keeps a documented drawing and photo library in his office.