Steve Turner ran an award-winning design firm in San Francisco for more than two decades prior to joining Black Diamond. This gives clients a sophisticated confidant as their designer. He has served as a design judge on many competitions at the local, national and international levels. He also wrote Field Manual, and is developing Drip by Design. Steve earned BFA (Magna Cum Laude) and MSc (4.0 GPA) degrees, and began his career as an apprentice at a nationally-respected residential architecture and planning firm on the East Coast. In addition to being an honored listee in Marquis’ Who’s Who of America, he has won more than 100 design awards and was featured in the Summer Edition of California Landscape Design: https://www.californialandscapedesign.org/summer-2021.

 

If working with a world-class designer is important to you as a client of Black Diamond, you have the unparalleled opportunity to collaborate with Steve Turner. He can transform your residential landscape, terrace, hardscape, outdoor kitchen, or even design a private golf hole crafted with synthetic turf. 

Steve Turner was featured in Golf Digest for his design inventiveness. Architecture Editor Derek Duncan, with his keen eye for talent, featured Steve Turner as the winner of a prestigious international design competition held by the AlisterMacKenzie Society: https://www.golfdigest.com/story/2024-lido-prize-contest-winner. Turner stands alone as the only member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) in to have won this prestigious global design competition. There are 2,100 members of APLD in the United States.

The Lido Prize is a tribute to the legendary architect whose masterpieces, such as Augusta National and Cypress Point, endure in their timeless allure and profound influence on modern golf course architecture. This annual award recognizes the most promising talent from around the world, who embody the namesake’s design ethos. The Society received 88 entries from six countries for their 2024 competition. 

Finalists, chosen for their fidelity to MacKenzie’s 13 principles, were meticulously reviewed by Jim Urbina. The esteemed architect co-designed the Old Macdonald course at Bandon Dunes with Tom Doak. Judges of the past, such as Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Ben Crenshaw, and Rees Jones, underscore the prize’s prestige. The “Lido” name harks back to MacKenzie’s prize-winning 1914 design for Long Island’s original Lido Golf Club. The modern-day prize was first presented in 1998 after being funded by MacKenzie’s great-grandson. 

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