I have a busy two weeks coming up, between doing some readings for my soon-to-be-published book, prepping architect interviews, and hitting the last few stragglers for “Best new course” awards, so today, I’ll let a Cybergolf colleague do the heavy lifting for me.
Blaine Newnham has this article on Old Macdonald up at Cybergolf.
Old Mac is the fourth course at the Bandon Dunes Resort, the golf world Mecca that toppled Pebble Beach from it’s vaunted spot atop the magazine rankings. Tom Doak worked with Jim Urbina and George Bahto to showcase holes that would have been created by architect Charles Blair Macdonald, the genius behind National Golf Links of America. Thank goodness it’s public. Everyone deserves to play great golf, regardless of financial circumstances. “National West” will give everyone an affordable way to play a proper rejoinder to one of the greatest golf courses on Earth and perhaps the most important course in the Architectural Timeline of American Golf.
