
The Restoration of Donald Ross’ Design at Florida’s Oldest Club
In 2020, Belleair Country Club hired Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design to oversee the restoration of the West Golf Course. To restore the course to Ross’ 1924 design, Jason Straka turned to historical records stored at the Tufts Archives at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina) and The Bellview Inn (Belleair, Florida).

Curracloe Links: First Impressions
Golf course designer Jason Straka shares his first impressions of the land that would reveal itself to become Curracloe Links.

Tartan Talks No. 92
After nearly a decade working on projects in China, Patrick Burton needed to find an avenue to break into the United States golf market. He explains why he shifted his attention to technology and golftainment.

Fry/Straka to Design Curracloe Links in Ireland
Golf Architect, Jason Straka & Druids Glen Director of Golf, Marcus Doyle talk about the new Fry/Straka design Curracloe Links to open in 2026, located just a wee bit south of Dublin.

TalkinGolf History Episode 114 - VaughnCon III: Defending Your Course
Today we have a special show...another edition of VaughnCon where we get extremely blunt on our golf course architcture takes. This is a jointly owned podcast between TalkinGolf History, the Donald Ross Society and Golf Club Atlas. Our special guest today is Jason Straka of Fry-Straka Design.

Jason Straka & Dana Fry Architects of Curracloe Links
A brand-new links golf course 28 years in the making is finally getting closer to fruition in southeast Ireland.
Shovels are breaking ground this week on Curracloe Links, a Dana Fry and Jason Straka design that will debut in 2026.
Dana and Jason joined Jonny on the podcast for a brief discussion around the inspiration behind the course, their ambition and love of Irish golf and plenty more.

Playing golf in Phoenix? This linksy desert course needs to be on your list
Back in 2013, the property’s three-decade-old Indian Bend course underwent a major $10 million renovation via Jason Stracka of Hurdzan/Fry Environmental Golf Design to improve both playability and flooding. Indian Bend was extremely flat, which meant it was harder to drain after big rains. Flat courses are also less fun, so there was plenty of work to do. About 365,000 cubic yards of material was removed from the water much of the course butts up against and used to raise parts of the layout, improving not only the fun factor but the ability to properly drain. They also removed trees and added more native/desert areas. Only 90 acres of the course is now considered maintained turfgrass, which also helps the maintenance team (not to mention saves millions of gallons of water annually). When it reopened it was renamed Ambiente, which means “environment” in Spanish.

Dana Fry, Jason Straka to design course alongside Irish beach used in 'Saving Private Ryan'
The American design team of Dana Fry and Jason Straka is headed to Ireland with plans to lay out a new course adjacent to Curracloe Beach in the southeast of the island.

Announcing Curracloe Links: Ireland’s next great golf course
The world’s next great seaside links is coming to Ireland. Curracloe Links, located adjacent to the white sands of Curracloe Beach, is designed by the renowned team of Dana Fry and Jason Straka and developed by the Neville Hotel Group. Ground breaking for the new golf links takes place in February, with an expected opening in 2026. The golf course is in the same location as Neville Hotels’ newest property, Ravenport Resort.

Union League National Golf Club
Ask any golfer what their idea of the perfect golf course would be. Most would say some combination of perhaps the two most iconic courses, and most regarded, in America: Pine Valley and Augusta National. If you can imagine that, then you are imagining Union League National Golf Club. The Union League of Philadelphia, which owns Union League National, was founded in 1862 to support President Abraham Lincoln and The Union in the United States’ Civil War.

Golf Sustainability Episode 2 - Sustainable Golf Insights from Jason Straka
In this episode of the Golf Sustainability Podcast, John Failla welcomes Jason Straka, principal of Fry Straka Global Golf Course Design, a leading global authority on sustainable golf course design. Jason shares his journey into the world of golf and how his passion for the environment led him to merge golf and environmental aspects of design.

A look at Florida's first golf course, right here in the Tampa Bay area
The Belleair Country Club is located in Clearwater and sports a long history that is connected to the very start of the Tampa Bay area.
WTSP takes a ride around Belleair Country Club and the restoration work designed by Fry/Straka.

Fry/Straka and Paul Azinger to design new course in southwest Florida
Golf architecture firm Fry/Straka has partnered with former PGA Tour player and Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger on the design of an eighteen-hole course for the new Miakka Golf Club in Myakka City, Florida.

TalkinGolf History Episode 100 - The History & Restoration of Belleair CC
Today we dive into the History and Restoration of Belleair CC, which happens to be my home club. Belleair has not only a fascinating golf history, but has just been restored to one of the best Donald Ross' courses in the United States.

Staying the Course with Dana Fry
Who is Dana Fry you ask? A quick google search conjures entries that read like the curriculum vitae of a very accomplished man. We meet for lunch on the clubhouse patio at Naples National Golf Club on a picture-perfect day. After talking for two and a half hours, I conclude that the first entry that answers my query proves to be a fitting description of the affable gentleman: “Fry is one of the most creative and successful golf course architects in the world.”

Fry/Straka studies classics for renovation at Valencia
The private course, located north of Los Angeles, was originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr and opened in 1965. The purpose of this year’s project, led by Jason Straka, was to restore Jones’s original design intent and classic features and enhance strategic options, while turf replacement, on all areas except greens, has reduced irrigation needs by 30 percent.

Donald Ross uncovered: Jason Straka finds original Belleair CC layout in the Florida ground and in the history books
Architect Jason Straka in June was midway through a major face-lift of Belleair Country Club’s West Course, with a reopening slated for November. In order to save the original Donald Ross layout, which the private club says is the oldest continually operating course in Florida, Straka first was tasked with erasing decades’ worth of alterations that dampened the intent of the original design, often burying Ross’s sublime work beneath good intentions.

Nothing like it
The Hickory Course at Hamilton Farm Golf Club blends a big challenge and significant par-3 footprint with high-level maintenance.

Architects pledge commitment to climate action
The three largest societies of golf course architects have jointly pledged to strengthen their commitment to climate action, within a wider framework of sustainable development as set out in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Fry/Straka restores Ross design on Belleair’s West course
Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design is progressing with a restoration of the Donald Ross-designed West course at Florida’s Belleair Country Club, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.