Our Founders:
Eldon "Wayne" Massey
There’s no substitute for experience in business, and Wayne Massey has a wealth of it in the field of golf course construction, including work alongside the game’s leading architects on some of the finest golf courses in the U.S. Wayne entered the profession in 1983 and worked with Earth Force until 1992, a period during which he worked as shaper on the TPC Southwind, home of the PGA Tour’s FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis, TN; project manager/shaper at Commonwealth National in Lansdale, PA and the Tom Fazio-designed Centennial nine at Philadelphia Country Club. Wayne also worked closely during that time with Ron Prichard, a Massachusetts-based architect with a reputation for first-class restorations of the early 20th century’s classic courses.
In 1992, Wayne moved to Landscapes Unlimited. Wayne’s experience with LU includes work on acclaimed Tom Fazio designs at White Columns in Alpharetta, GA; Reynolds National in Greensboro, GA; and Glenn Oaks in Des Moines, IA; as well as Rees Jones’ heralded design of Poppy Ridge in Livermore, CA. With Mike O’Shea, Wayne founded Medalist Golf in 1996, and his experience has paid off in the completion of some of the highest-quality golf courses in the Southeast. Wayne has served on the GCBAA Board of Directors.
"Given our experience and intimate knowledge of the golf course construction business," Wayne says, "I’m confident in our ability to build the best course possible when quality is the client’s number one priority."
Edward "Mike" O'Shea
Mike O’Shea joins Wayne Massey in bringing years of his own experience to Medalist Golf, dating to 1989, when he joined the firm of Landscapes Unlimited. Mike’s project experience with LU includes work on a pair of celebrated Tom Fazio designs: White Columns in Alpharetta, GA, and Caves Valley in Owings Mills, MD, a Golf Magazine top-100 honoree; Rees Jones-led renovations of the Country Club of Virginia and Atlanta’s fabled East Lake Golf Club (home course of Bobby Jones); and construction of Bradshaw Farms, a pristine daily-fee course located in the Atlanta suburb of Woodstock, GA.
Mike and Wayne joined forces in 1996 to form Medalist Golf, and Mike’s knowledge and skills have helped the firm build or renovate some of golf’s most well-respected facilities, including construction of the new nine holes at the TPC Sugarloaf, the Tom Fazio-designed East Course at Belfair in Bluffton, S.C.; Belfair’s sister courses at Berkeley Hall, also in Bluffton; and renovation work at famed venues such as Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta, Sea Island Golf Club and the Country Club of Charleston.
"Medalist Golf is dedicated to building the highest-quality golf courses in the business," Mike says. "A look at the projects we’ve completed illustrates both the confidence the developers have placed in us, and the attention to detail and quality we give each project when we’re out there in the field."
