George W. Cobb
George Cobb attended the University of Georgia, graduating in 1937 with a degree in Landscape Architecture. He was employed by the National Park Service as a landscape architect until 1941, when he entered the U.S. Marine Corps as an engineering officer.

The Marine Corps recognized in Cobb, a landscape architect and scratch golfer, the makings of a golf course architect. So he was assigned to design and build a golf course for Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Unsure of his abilities, Cobb asked and got permission to retain Fred Findlay as course architect, for, as he later put it, "I didn't want to be court-martialed if it turned out bad." Cobb acted as construction superintendent on this and a second layout was built by Findlay at Camp Lejeune.

Cobb's first solo project at the Cherry Point (N.C.) Marine Corps air station in 1946. He entered private practice as a golf architect in 1947 but was recalled to active duty in 1951. Following his second tour in the Marines, Cobb reentered private practice as a golf architect and land planner, opening an office in Greenville, S.C. in 1956. In the 1950's and 1960's he served as design consultant to Augusta National Golf Course, and developed a close friendship with Bobby Jones. When the club decided to install a nine-hole par 3 course, Cobb was asked to design it. When Jones authored an autobiography (Golf is my Game) in 1959, Cobb drafted the attractive hole-by-hole diagram of Augusta National used as illustrations.

Though several of his designs were used as professional tournament sites, Cobb prided himself in providing attractive, playable layouts that resort players found enjoyable, not frustrating. 

Bill Bergin  
Bill Bergin played the world's best golf courses as a touring professional, gained an understanding of club operations and the ability of the everyday player as a teaching professional, and acquired technical design expertise under the guidance of noted designer, Bob Cupp.

Involved in projects ranging from exclusive private clubs to high-end daily fee golf courses, on terrain as diverse as the Gulf Coast lowlands to the hills of Tennessee, Bergin's qualifications afford him a keen insight into golf course layouts and enable him to provide a comprehensive design package.  Over the last fifteen years, Bergin has been involved in planning and design of more than 40 projects, including fifteen revisions.  While working for Bob Cupp, Golf World's 1992 Architect of the Year, he was able to blend his strong strategic background with the actual mechanics of golf course design to become skilled in all phases of the design process.
Before his work as a designer, Bill spent six years playing golf professionally and three years as a teaching professional at Cherokee Town & Country Club in Atlanta.  During his competitive days, the former Georgia Amateur Champion played in excess of 250 professional tournaments worldwide, including three U.S. Opens, two British Opens and more than 50 PGA Tour events.  Competing on courses such as St. Andrews, Royal St. George's, Pebble Beach, Olympic Club, and Baltusrol, and teaching golfers of all abilities has given him an astute awareness into the strategic quality of a golf course and how it affects all players.  Highlighting Bill's playing career was a tournament-low 66 in the third round of the 1984 British Open at St. Andrews, leading him to a 14th place finish among the best golfers in the world.  Bill Bergin is a former Class A PGA Professional and earned a Business degree from Auburn University in 1981.