[2] During World War II, Cobb was a Marine Corps engineering officer at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Cobb was permitted to hire experienced course architect Fred Findlay to provide design assistance.
He started his own golf design business and created six courses, but when the Korean War escalated, he was recalled to active duty in 1951.
While working on Green Valley in the spring of 1956, he was offered and accepted a position as a director of Hollyridge Corporation, the developer.
[1] The only other Par 3 course Cobb ever designed was at Vestavia Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama.
They collaborated on every subsequent course the firm built, and when Cobb's health began to fail in the early 1980s, he ran the company.
[citation needed] The following table is a (partial) list of courses that George Cobb either designed alone (prior to 1971) or co-designed with John LaFoy.