<p>The effects of age or career experience on productivity, as measured by the creative quality of the work, for workers in creative fields, has been of some interest to researchers in a number of areas, including economics. Decades of research find that for a great variety of such fields, peak age is typically in the 30s, but may vary according to field, or generation within a field. For example, studies of generations of painters during transitions from periods emphasizing craftsmanship to ones of avant-garde originality have found creativity profiles whose peaks are earlier for later generations. The question of peak ages for golf course architects relative to other fields, as well as generational change, may be interesting for a few reasons. Firstly, the craft-oriented nature of the field, along with the importance of reputation and track record in securing top commissions (analogous to building architecture) suggests that peaks may be relatively late in life. Second, for reasons similar to those in painting, the possibility of generational shift in lifetime creativity profiles exists due to evolution in career dynamics and standards of judgment that have occurred in the field of golf course architecture. We evaluate these hypotheses with two novel data sets and corresponding econometric methodologies: (i) numerical rankings of golf course quality obtained from a popular guide to international golf courses, for courses designed by a set of major golf course architects with birth dates covering a range of over 150 years, and (ii) magazine rankings of the top 100 golf courses in the United States. With both data sets, we estimate how architects’ productivities (measured by the quality of golf courses designed) relate to age and experience polynomials. We find that golf architects peak quite late in life, with little evidence of intergenerational shifts in creativity profiles.</p>