ERIN HILLS GOLF COURSE - Erin, Wisconsin, USA

UNION LEAGUE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB
- Cape May, New Jersey, USA — UNION LEAGUE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB - Cape May, New Jersey, USA

CALUSA PINES GOLF CLUB - Naples, Florida, USA

BELLEAIRE COUNTRY CLUB - Belleair, Florida, USA

THE SOUTH COURSE at ARCADIA BLUFFS
- Arcadia, Michigan, USA — THE SOUTH COURSE at ARCADIA BLUFFS - Arcadia, Michigan, USA

YAS ACRES GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

SHELTER HARBOR GOLF CLUB - Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA

AMBIENTE COURSE AT CAMELBACK GOLF CLUB - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

THE CLUB AT BOND HEAD - Beeton, Ontario, Canada

LOS ROBLES GREENS GOLF COURSE
- Thousand Oaks, California, USA — LOS ROBLES GREENS GOLF COURSE - Thousand Oaks, California, USA

FARMLINKS AT PURSELL FARMS -
Sylacauga, Alabama, USA — FARMLINKS AT PURSELL FARMS - Sylacauga, Alabama, USA

Welcome to Fry/Straka

Worldwide Reach | Environmental Focus | Award-Winning Designs | Creative Distinction

Golf Course Architects Dana Fry and Jason Straka formed Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design in 2012, but they’ve been working together for the better part of 30 years. This partnership, inclusive of expert in-house staff and a worldwide network of trusted partners, seeks to serve clients who recognize tradition, environmental stewardship and cutting-edge technical prowess not as obligations, but as reliable, strategic, fruitful, honorable paths to opportunity, to creative distinction and market leadership. It helps that Dana and Jason thoroughly enjoy what they do. They love being on site with clients, maximizing the golfing potential and natural gifts of each and every project. These core beliefs enable Fry/Straka to deliver first-class service and a diversity of award-winning golf course designs time and time again, regardless of terrain, climate or budget.

Please take a moment to browse the information and photography here. Fry/Straka is proud of the team it has assembled, of the design philosophy that guides our work, of the 70-plus golf courses that embody all that we stand for — as a firm. What's more, please don’t be a stranger. We encourage you to bookmark this site and visit frequently, as we regularly add current projects, post news & offer insights on golf course architecture and industry topics. Also be sure to follow us on social media (see below), where we tend to share even more timely stories/pictures from our wide-ranging travels.

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Erin Hills Golf Course #18

Host of the 2039 U.S. Junior Amateur | 2035 U.S. Amateur | 2033 U.S. Women’s Amateur | 2030 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball | 2027 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball

2025 U.S. Women’s Open | 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur | 2017 U.S. Open | 2011 U.S. Amateur | 2008 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links

Testimonials

“For Fry, every new golf course design is more of a masterpiece than the one he previously completed. Every project explores new territory, and Fry gives each one so much personal attention that is always spectacular, fresh, and often trend-setting.”

Gaylene Salomons, Naples Illustrated
"What hasn’t changed since day one is Straka’s focus on the environment. Seemingly every design firm talks the talk, but Straka has walked the walk since the 1990s."

Joe Passov, Sports Illustrated
"It’s still hard for me to understand how Dana’s conceptual vision works, how he can see what can happen to a golf hole before the earthwork even begins. It’s sort of amazing."

Hal Phillips, Golf Course Industry
"Not only is the golf course stunning, but every type of player also walks away with a ‘wow, this is a beautiful golf course’. Architects Dana and Jason listened to our members and delivered beyond anything that we imagined."

Bill Langley, General Manager, The Club at Quail Ridge
"Every golf-course design project undertaken by Fry/ Straka Global Golf Course Design assumes a position of great importance, as evidenced by the level of attention bestowed on each one."

Asian Club Business
"Over the last two decades, Jason Straka has been considered a leading global authority on sustainable golf course design."

John Failla, Founder Golf Sustainability
"In carving this course out of a bland barley field, Dana Fry ran the risk of producing golf’s equivalent of a game of Checkers. But his brilliant bunker placement and green contours elevate Arcadia Bluffs South to a game of three-dimension Chess."

Ron Whitten, Golf Digest

Recent News about Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design

News

Jan 27, 2025

Curracloe Links: Ireland’s Next Great Seaside Course

Jan 27, 2025

Golf course architects are notorious for praising the land of their next project. Sometimes that praise is warranted… sometimes not.

Put golf course architects Dana Fry and Jason Straka in that “warranted’’ category in regards to Curracloe Links, the course the duo is creating in Southeast Ireland. Already being touted as Ireland’s “next great seaside golf course,’’ Curracloe Links includes Ravenport Resort, which is located 90 minutes south of Dublin. Curracloe Links will be seeded in the spring, with an expected opening in the summer of 2026.

Jan 27, 2025

Jan 17, 2025

Delivering the Dramatic

Jan 17, 2025

Quail Ridge unveils results of North course redesign, completed by Fry/Straka and NMP Golf Construction.

Jan 17, 2025

Jan 16, 2025

Calusa Pines Honored as a Top 100 Golf Course in the World

Jan 16, 2025

Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design is honored that Calusa Pines has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World (#52) according to The Links 100 rankings published by Links Magazine. What makes this honor special is the rankings were voted on by our peer golf course architects from across the globe.

Jan 16, 2025

Jan 9, 2025

Miakka Golf Club built to be secret garden, 'environmental win'

Jan 9, 2025

"This is one of the highlights of my life," said Dana Fry, half the Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design team which is designing Miakka Golf Club for Herrig with help from Bradenton's Paul Azinger, a Major champion on the PGA Tour and former Ryder Cup captain. "This will be the place where all other courses will be judged. I assure you this will look completely natural. It will look like it has been here for eternity."

Jan 9, 2025

Welcome to Fry/Straka

Erin Hills Golf Course #18

“For Fry, every new golf course design is more of a masterpiece than the one he previously completed. Every project explores new territory, and Fry gives each one so much personal attention that is always spectacular, fresh, and often trend-setting.”

"What hasn’t changed since day one is Straka’s focus on the environment. Seemingly every design firm talks the talk, but Straka has walked the walk since the 1990s."

"It’s still hard for me to understand how Dana’s conceptual vision works, how he can see what can happen to a golf hole before the earthwork even begins. It’s sort of amazing."

"Not only is the golf course stunning, but every type of player also walks away with a ‘wow, this is a beautiful golf course’. Architects Dana and Jason listened to our members and delivered beyond anything that we imagined."

"Every golf-course design project undertaken by Fry/ Straka Global Golf Course Design assumes a position of great importance, as evidenced by the level of attention bestowed on each one."

"Over the last two decades, Jason Straka has been considered a leading global authority on sustainable golf course design."

"In carving this course out of a bland barley field, Dana Fry ran the risk of producing golf’s equivalent of a game of Checkers. But his brilliant bunker placement and green contours elevate Arcadia Bluffs South to a game of three-dimension Chess."

Recent News about Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design

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