David Gill/Steven Halberg Limited
Golf Course Architects

1298 Dogwood Lane
Carol Stream, Illinois
60188-3321


Phone 630-309-7565
Fax 630-293-0443

Info@Golf-Architects.com

STEVEN HALBERG

DAVID GILL & STEVEN HALBERG LIMITED
 

• EDUCATION:
  • University of Illinois Bachelor of Landscape Architecture BLA
    
  • Illinois Benedictine College Master of Business Administration
    Finance Concentration MBA
    
  • National Golf Foundation Golf Management School 2-Yrs. 1985-1986
    
  • National Recreation and Park Association Park Maintenance Management School 2-Yrs. 1977-1978
    
  • TORO Irrigation Design Seminar 1981
    

 

• PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
  
  • American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
    
    • Illinois Chapter - ASLA - Past President 1995-1997
      
    • Illinois Chapter - ASLA - President 1993-1995
      
    • Illinois Chapter - ASLA - President - Elect 1991-1993
      
    • Illinois Chapter - ASLA - Awards Committee 1991-1993
      
    • Illinois Chapter - ASLA - Treasurer 1988-1989
       

• PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION:
  
  • Registered Landscape Architect - Minnesota # 16839
    
  • Registered Landscape Architect - Illinois # 157-000857
    

 

• PROFESSIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATIONS:
  
  • National Golf Foundation
    
  • United States Golf Association (USGA)
    
  • Illinois Turfgrass Foundation
     

   

• PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
  
  • JULY 1990 to PRESENT
    
    • DAVID GILL & STEVEN HALBERG LIMITED, Golf Course Architects / Landscape Architects/Land Planners
      President, Chief Operating Officer, Principal Designer and Project Manager
      Mr. Halberg has over twenty years of experience in the landscape architectural field. The twenty years of experience includes fourteen in park and recreation master planning, five in golf course management, and ten in the golf course architectural design field.
      
    • Representative golf course architectural and design projects include:
      
      • Brighton Dale Links - Kenosha County, Wisconsin
        Project Manager - Designer for eighteen hole expansion to existing 27-hole golf complex. Responsible for preparation of construction working drawings, cost estimates, specifications, contract bidding and negotiations, and construction observation.
        Blue Spruce - Brighton Dale Links called "Best public course for the money in southeast Wisconsin..Pleasure to play, relaxing...Will go back to play again and again" by Golf Digest Places to Play 1996-97.
        White Birch - Brighton Dale Links Golf Digest Places to Play 1996-97 says White Birch is very well laid out ..very challenging best value in the Midwest.
        

       

      • Oak Grove Golf Club - Harvard, Illinois
        Principal Designer and Golf Course Architect for development of eighteen hole public daily fee golf course. Responsible for master development plan, working drawings, cost estimates, bidding, contract negotiations, construction observation, and inspections. Responsible for coordination of several consultants, including clubhouse architect, waste management consultants, turfgrass consultants, on-course signs, and maintenance facility designer.
        
        • Rockford Register - "Best Golf Course I've ever played" ...Best golf course in the Rockford area
          
        • Chicago Sun-Times-"Probably best new course in state."
          
        • Chicagoland Golf Magazine"Is it a must play? You betch, and we can't wait to have at it again""Oak Grove should gain Halberg some much-deserved national attention"
          
        • The Aurora Beacon News - "Chicagoland's newest 18-hole golf course is a commune with nature.." "..requires every club in the bag, plus more than a pittance of just plain good luck."
          
        • Golf Digest Review Panelist - "Probably the best new course in Illinois"

      
      

      • Delbrook Golf Course - Delavan, Wisconsin
        Principal Golf Course Architect on design of nine hole addition to existing 18-hole public daily-fee golf course. The overall project included a driving range and upgrading the antiquated irrigation system to a new double row computer controlled system. In addition to upgrading the irrigation system additional forward tees and some new fairway bunkers were added to improve playability for all skill levels and to reduce overall maintenance inputs due to lack of teeing ground.
        
        The project required permits from both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Wisconsin State Department of Natural Resources. Both permits were successfully obtained in time to meet the construction schedule desired by the City of Delavan.
      • Nickol Knoll Golf Course - Arlington Heights, Illinois
        Principal Golf Course Architect on design of nine hole par three constructed on top of a sanitary landfill. Turned "Walter Payton's training hill into a public nine hole par three golf course." Prepared master plan for golf course, grading and landform design, cost estimates, and working drawings. Assisted in preparation of landscape plans, bidding and negotiations with contractors, and provided construction observation for golf course construction.
        
        • Chicagoland Golf Magazine recognizes Nickol Knoll Golf Club as "maybe the best par-3 course in Chicago".
          
        • Illinois Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects awarded Nickol Knoll Golf Course and Park Project a Design Merit Award.
          
      • Marquette Park Junior Golf Training Center - Chicago, Illinois Golf Course Design Consultant - Designer of three hole Junior Golf Training Facility and 32-Station Practice Center. The Chicago Park District commissioned the design team to develop a golf training and practice facility immediately adjacent to the Marquette Park Golf Course. The Junior Golf Training Center includes a three hole golf course, with three sets of tees. This configuration permits a player to "circle" the course up to six times from different tee positions ultimately playing eighteen holes. The course includes two par-3 golf holes and 1 par-4 hole. The par-4 hole will play as a par-3 from two of the three teeing positions. The golf holes provide a learning experience for shot-making and course management, teaching players the finer art of "playing" the course the way they find it.
        The complete facility includes a miniature golf course, the 32-station practice range, with four target greens, a practice putting green, and a practice chipping facility. The practice chipping facility provides a "short-game" practice area with "chip-shots" and "bump-and-run" shots up to 50-yards.
        The practice range and the miniature golf facility is tentatively scheduled for a Spring 1999 opening, with the 3-hole golf facility scheduled for Summer 2000.
        
      • Meadowlark Hills Golf Course - Kearney Nebraska
        Principal Designer and Project Manager - Designer of eighteen hole public daily fee golf course for City of Kearney. Responsibilities included master plan, public meetings and presentation, preparation of working drawings, cost estimates, construction contract negotiations, construction administration and observation. Project was designed and constructed within budget.
        
        • Golf Digest's "Places to Play 1996-'97" Western Edition as "Nice new course in Kearney...Best course of area, up and down rare in Platte Valley, watch yardage closely...Brand new, needs to mature, nice layout ...Hilly, tight back nine...Deceptive, looks easy, is not...Excellent design, good variety of terrain...Best new course in Nebraska, watch this one."
        • Omaha Midlands Golf 95 "The new Kearney Municipal golf course, opened last July, landed on the Midland's Best list of public courses" ranked sixth in the State.
          
      • Downers Grove Golf Club - Downers Grove, Illinois
        Principal Designer and Project Manager for design of a golf driving range and the remodeling of three holes on the oldest nine hole golf course west of the Appalachian Mountains. Designed renovation of remaining six greens and practice green.
        Project involvement included coordinating consultants for civil engineering and wetlands delineation and wetlands mitigation. Prepared master development plan, cost estimates, and working drawings. Conducted bidding and negotiations with contractors and managed construction including payment applications, and construction observation.
        
      • Plum Creek Golf Club - Winchester, Illinois
        Principal Designer and Project Manager for design of nine hole golf course including practice range. Responsible for preparing master plan, cost estimates, working drawings, specifications, and contract negotiations.
        
      • Oak Meadows / Brookwood Master Development Plan - DuPage County, Illinois
        Principal Designer and Golf Course Architect for design of comprehensive master plan to integrate two adjacent eighteen hole golf courses into major public golf complex. Responsible for golf course master development plan, cost estimates, working drawings, specifications, and construction observation.
        
      • White Pines Golf Course - Bensenville, Illinois.
        Principal Designer of long range master development plan for the renovation and remodeling of a thirty-six hole public golf facility. Prepared SWOT analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for each golf hole. Prepared report identifying playability issues for each hole. Prepared phasing strategies and cost estimates for implementing long range plan.
        
      • The Sanctuary Golf Club - New Lenox, Illinois
        Principal Designer and Golf Course Architect for 18-hole public golf facility and driving range. Prepared master development plan, grading and landform design, working drawings, project specifications, contract negotiations, construction contract administration. Assisted in clubhouse and maintenance facility planning and design.
        
      • Delta Links Golf Center - Harvard, Illinois
        Golf Course Architect and Landscape Architect for stand alone golf learning center and mini golf facility. Prepared master development plan, working drawings for golf features, and construction observation.
        
      • Bureau Valley Country Club - Princeton, Illinois
        Principal designer and project manager for the addition of nine holes to an existing nine hole golf course originally constructed in 1909. New golf holes planned to integrate with existing holes. Routing will play to 6,400 yards from the back tees, 5,100 yards from the forward tees.
        Worked with Club Golf Steering Committee preparing alternative routing plans to expand existing course to eighteen holes and improve character and playability of existing golf holes. Assisted Golf Steering Committee in presenting proposed expansion plan to membership. Plan overwhelmingly approved by membership 184 to 15.
        
      • Expert Witness Testimony
        
        • Provided expert witness testimony on impacts of highway and roadway expansion on golf course. Testified on behalf of State Department of Transportation.
          
        • Providing expert witness testimony on impacts of changes to golf course on adjacent properties.
          
  • 1986 - 90
    
    • Director of Planning and Development - Forest Preserve District DuPage County; Landscape Architecture; Site Planning; Master Planning; Contract Documents; Specifications; Construction Observation; Contract Administration.
      

      Directed District's Planning and Development activities including trail planning, design, and implementation. Overall activities included presentations to elected public officials, appointed officials in transportation and planning fields, and general public meetings.
      

      • Representative Projects include:
        
        • Danada Forest Preserve, Wheaton, Illinois
          Developed master plan for 700 acre former estate of Dan and Ada Rice. The estate included a 40-stall "Kentucky-Style" horse stable, a 15-room home, a quarter-mile race track for training race horses, and more than 100-acres of woodlands and more than 300-acres of grain fields.
          The master plan included reforestation and habitat enhancement, renovating the home to serve as a public visitor center, renovation of the horse training facilities to house an introductory equestrian training center, and developing multi-purpose system for both intra-preserve and inter-preserve movements.
          
        • Mallard Lake Forest Preserve, Hanover Park, Illinois
          Developed revised master plan for reclamation of 200-acre gravel mining operation. The District contracted with a private entity to develop a recreational lake and picnic area through the mining of gravel. The mining operation followed the actual location of the gravel resource, causing a necessity to modify the original master development plan to accommodate the "new" lake location and configuration.
          The completed reclamation plan included fishing areas, picnic groves, wetland areas and trails. The Illinois Department of Mines recognized the completed project for the outstanding reclamation of a mining site.
          
        • Campbell Slough Forest Preserve, Itasca, Illinois -
          Developed updated master development plan consistent with Forest Preserve District's revised goals to focus on more passive recreational activities. The original master plan was submitted to Illinois Department of Conservation for LAWCON and OSLAD grant funding. Worked with Illinois Department of Conservation to revise plan consistent with original grant goals. Developed implementation strategy and phasing program to develop passive recreational facilities, trails, public access, picnic shelters, and passive recreational games areas, parking facilities, and comfort stations.
          
        • Oak Meadows Golf Course, Addison, Illinois
          Served as general manager of eighteen-hole public golf facility. Directed club house and golf course maintenance operations; supervised pro shop concessionaire. Administered concession contracts for golf and food and beverage concessionaires, prepared and administered budgets; capital improvement planning; revenue and expense projections; operating proforma; and profit/loss statement preparation.
          
        • Green Meadows Golf Course, Westmont, Illinois - Served as general manager of nine hole golf course including pro shop and golf course maintenance for start-up period after Forest Preserve District acquired nine hole golf course in February 1990. Responsible for opening newly acquired nine hole golf course including budget preparation, capital equipment requirements, staffing, operational policies, cash flow projections, and inventory.
          
  • 1984 - 86
    
    • Superintendent of Design and Development - Forest Preserve District DuPage County; Landscape Architecture; Site Planning; Master Planning; Contract Documents; Specifications; Construction Observation; Contract Administration.
      General supervision of club house and pro shop concessionaire on eighteen hole golf course. Including concession contract administration; budgeting; and revenue and expense projections.
      
  • 1981 - 84
    
    • Senior Landscape Architect - Forest Preserve District DuPage County
      Landscape Architecture; Site Planning; Master Planning; Contract Documents; Specifications; Construction Observation; Contract Administration.
      
  • 1978 - 81
    • Superintendent Parks and Planning - Elk Grove Park District; Landscape Architecture; Site Planning; Construction Observation; Contract Administration; Park Maintenance Management.
      
  • 1977 - 78
    
    • Superintendent Planning and Development - Elk Grove Park District; Landscape Architect, Site Planning, Construction Observation, Contract Administration.

• 1976 - 1977
  • Landscape Architect
    Harrison-Hempe-Krengel
    Ames, Iowa

 

Back to Top of Page