Josh Pettit

Design Associate

Based in San Francisco and with over 25 years of experience in the golf industry, Josh is both a course architect and historian. He holds a BSc in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and studied Golf Course Architecture at Edinburgh University.

He has established himself as one of the world’s foremost experts on Dr. Alister MacKenzie and is the founder of the Alister MacKenzie Institute. He is editor of “The MacKenzie Reader”, a compendium of the Good Doctor’s texts which has become required reading for students of course design.

Josh started working with Mike DeVries while a high schooler on the crew during the Meadow Club restoration.  He joined the CDP team in 2024, supports the partnership’s activities in the United States, and assists the teams in Europe and Australia.