Golf Course Trades has done its usual terrific job with my latest story for them. This one is short, but we’ll have two more stories for them soon, including a catch-up with Dr. Richard Hurley, a.k.a. Dr. Turfgrass.
In the mean time, the link to the story is here. From the article:
“NATIONAL GOLF LINKS OF AMERICA, Southampton, NY
Truly the font from which all true golf course architecture in America flows. Golf architect Charles Blair Macdonald, himself a superb player, talked the talked and then walked the walk at the course that lays directly adjacent to Shinnecock. He told the world he would build the best course in America and then went out and did it. Perhaps the first pastiche – “tribute course” – ever designed, the holes were all modeled after famous strategic holes from Europe, mostly the U.K. Macdonald worked with Seth Raynor until 1925 before retiring. Raynor them hired Charles “Steamshovel” Banks as his second, continuing the Bloodline. These three giants went on to design roughly 50 courses across the country and as far as Bermuda, all rotating about 27 of the hole designs they imported from across the globe. We will visit a fistful below. Others include Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Yale, St. Louis C.C. and Pete Dye’s favorite course, Camargo in Cincinnati.”
