A Time Line of Golf Course Architecture

1848

• Gutta ball introduced

1860

The Old Course at St. Andrewsesse

• Feature Interview with Kevin Cook on Tommy’s Honor
• The Reverse Old Course by Jeremy Glenn
• Feature Interview on links golf with Paul Daley
• Feature Interview on St. Andrews with Darren Kilfara
• Feature Interview with Richard Goodale No. 2

Richard Chambers and George Morris

• Royal Liverpool Golf Club, England

1870

Old Tom Morris

• Lundin, Scotland
• Royal County Down, Northern Ireland
• Machrihanish, Scotland
• Elie, The Golf House Club, Scotland
• Wallasey Golf Club, England
• The Early Golf Designers: the Real Golden Age by Melvyn Hunter Morrow

1880

• North Berwick (West), Scotland
• Royal Aberdeen, Scotland
• Royal St. Georges, England
• Feature Interview with Lorne Rubenstein on Dornoch
• Royal Dornoch as profiled by Rich Goodale under My Home Course
• The Architectural Evolution of Royal Dornoch by Rich Goodale
• Feature Interview with Richard Goodale on Experience Royal Dornoch

1890

• The Early Golf Architects: Beyond Old Tom by Tom MacWood
• Feature Interview with Stuart Bendelow re: Tom Bendelow

Devereux Emmet

• Garden City GC, NY, USA

Harry Hunter

• Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Kent, England

1900

• Arts and Crafts Golf, Part I, The Dark Ages, Victorian Aesthetics by Thomas MacWood
• Part II, The Reformers, The Arts & Craft Movement by Thomas MacWood
• Part III, Country Life, The Guide by Thomas MacWood
• Part IV, Lamplighters by Thomas MacWood
• Part V, The Converging Arts in America, Arts and Crafts Golf by Thomas MacWood

Walter Travis

• Ekwanok, VT, USA (with John Duncan Dunn)
• Garden City GC, NY, USA
• Hollywood GC, NJ, USA (restoration work by Rees Jones)
• Feature Interview wih Bob Labbance on Walter Travis
• Evolution of the Westchester Country Club Golf Courses by Michael B. Prystowsky

Willie Park, Jr.

• Kilspindie, Scotland
• Maidstone, NY, USA
• Notts, England
• Silloth on Solway, Cumbria, England

Stuart Paton

• Woking, England

Haskell (rubber-core) ball introduced in 1902

The Foulis Brothers

• Feature Interview with Jim Healey
• Glen Echo Country Club by Jim Healey

Herbert Fowler

• Cruden Bay, Scotland
• Eastward Ho!, MA, USA
• Royal North Devon, England

George Combe

• Royal County Down, Northern Ireland

Harry Colt

• H.S. Colt of East Hendred by Tony Muldoon
• County Sligo, Ireland
• Kennemer Golf & Country Club, Netherlands
• Royal County Down, Northern Ireland
• Royal Liverpool Golf Club, England
• Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Royal Zoute, Belgium
• Saint-Germain, France
• Swinley Forest, England

Henry C. Fownes

• Oakmont, PA, USA
• Below the Trees by Dunlop White III
• Feature Interview with Dunlop White re: Tree Management Part I
• Feature Interview with Dunlop White re: Tree Management Part II

James Braid

• Brora, Scotland
• Hunstanton, England
• Lundin, Scotland
• Pennard, Wales
• Royal Cinque Ports, England

Charles Blair Macdonald

• Mid Ocean, Bermuda (restoration by Tom Doak)
• National Golf Links of America, NY, USA
• Piping Rock, NY, USA
• Saint Louis, MO, USA
• Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA (restoration work by Gil Hanse and George Bahto)
• Feature Interview with George Bahto on C.B. Macdonald
• Feature Interview No. 2 with George Bahto on C.B. Macdonald

1910

J.F. Abercromby

• The Addington, Surrey, England

George Crump

• Pine Valley, NJ, USA
• George Arthur Crump: Portrait of a Legend by Thomas MacWood

Donald Ross

• Beverly, IL, USA (restoration work by Ron Prichard)
• Broadmoor, IN, USA (restoration work by Tom Doak)
• Charles River, MA, USA (restoration work by Ron Prichard)
• Essex County, MA, USA
• French Lick Springs, IN, USA
• Highlands, NC, USA (restoration work by Ron Prichard)
• Holston Hills, TN, USA
• Mid Pines, NC, USA
• Pinehurst No.2, NC, USA
• Pine Needles, NC, USA
• Plainfield, NJ, USA (restoration work by Gil Hanse)
• Roaring Gap, NC, USA
• Salem, MA, USA
• Seminole, FL, USA
• Skokie, IL, USA (restoration work by Ron Prichard)
• Southern Pines, NC, USA
• Wannamoisett, RI, USA
• Wilmington Golf Course, NC, USA
• Feature Interview with Walker Taylor IV on Donald Ross
• Feature Interview with Khris Januzik on Donald Ross
• Feature Interview with Brad Klein on Donald Ross
• Feature Interview with Michael Fay on Donald Ross
• Essex G&CC, Canada: Evolution of a Classic Course by Jeff Mingay Ross Restoration
• Guidelines as presented by The Ross Society

A.W.Tillinghast

• Bethpage (Black), NY, USA
• Fenway, NY, USA (restoration work by Gil Hanse)
• Somerset Hills, NJ, USA
• Winged Foot (West), NY, USA
• Feature Interview with Rick Wolffe on A.W. Tillinghast
• Selling a Tree Program at your Club by Gary Sherman
• Feature Interview with Phil Young on A.W. Tillinghast

Seth Raynor

• Camargo, OH, USA (restoration work by Tom Doak)
• Country Club of Charleston, SC, USA
• Country Club of Fairfield, CT, USA (restoration by Bruce Hepner)
• Fishers Island, NY, USA
• Lookout Mountain, GA, USA (restoration work by Brian Silva)
• Monterey Peninsula (Dunes), CA, USA (with Robert Hunter, modified by Rees Jones)
• Saint Louis CC, MO, USA (restoration work by Brian Silva)
• Shoreacres, IL, USA
• Westhampton, NY, USA
• Yale, CT, USA
• Yeamans Hall, SC, USA (restoration work by Tom Doak)
• Feature Interview with Dr. Henry Terrie on Seth Raynor
• Feature Interview with Mark Stovall and Scott Wicker
• Mountain Lake, FL, USA – Blending Old and New in Renovating a Classic by Mike Sweeney

Herbert Strong

• Canterbury Golf Club, OH, USA (restoration by Bruce Hepner)
• Engineers Country Club, NY, USA

1920

• A Round of Golf Courses: Bernard Darwin as compiled by Tom MacWood
• Outward Nine
• Inward Nine
• 19th Hole
• Feature Interview with Ralph Livingston re: hickory golf

Alister Mackenzie

• Alwoodley Golf Club, Leeds, England (with Harry Colt)
• Augusta National, GA, USA
• California Golf Club of San Francisco, CA, USA
• Crystal Downs, MI, USA (with Perry Maxwell)
• Cypress Point, CA, USA (with Robert Hunter)
• The Jockey Club (Red Course), Argentina
• New South Wales, Australia (modified by Eric Apperly)
• Pasatiempo, CA, USA
• Royal Melbourne (West), Australia (with Alex Russell)
• The Valley Club of Montecito, CA, USA (with Robert Hunter)
• The Scarlet Course at Ohio State as profiled by Tom MacWood
• Art in Architecture by Max Behr
• The Art of Golf Design by Geoff Shackelford
• A Dream Decision by Tom MacWood

Charles Hugh Alison

• Kirtland, OH, USA (restoration by Forse Design)
• Gliding past Fuji – C.H. Alison in Japan by Tom MacWood
• Playing golf at Kawana, Japan by Noel Freeman

George Thomas

• Los Angeles (North), CA, USA
• Riviera, CA, USA
• Feature Interview with George Thomas as told to Geoff Shackelford
• A Historian’s Dream Article by Geoff Shackelford

Stanley Thompson

• Banff Springs Golf Course, Canada
• Cape Breton Highlands Links, Canada
• The 16th hole at Cape Breton Highlands by Jeff Mingay
• Capilano, Canada
• Jasper Park, Canada
• St. George’s, Canada
• The Architectural Evolution of Stanley Thompson by Ian Andrew
• Feature Interview with Lorne Rubenstein on Canadian golf
• Banff Springs by Jeremy Glenn
• Feature Interview with Stanley Thompson as told to Jeff Mingay & Ian Andrew
• Feature Interview with Head Professional Joe Robinson

H. Chandler Egan

• Pebble Beach, CA, USA

William Flynn

• Cascades, VA, USA
• Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA
• Kittansett, MA, USA (restoration work by Gil Hanse)
• Shinnecock Hills, NY, USA
• Flynn’s Lehigh CC as profiled by Mark Fine
  

Stiles & Van Kleek

• Taconic, MA, USA
• Challenges of Restoring a Classic American Golf Course by Kevin Mendik
• Feature Interview with Bob Labbance and Kevin Mendik

Skip Wogan

• Wogan’s Tedesco CC as profiled by Bradford Tufts

William Langford and Theodore Moreau

• Culver Academies Golf Club, IN, USA
• Harrison Hills, IN, USA
• Lawsonia (Links), WI, USA
• Skokie, IL, USA (restoration work by Ron Prichard)
• The Architecture of William B. Langford by Mark Chalfant

Alex Findlay

• Walnut Lane, PA, USA

Tom Simpson

• Cruden Bay, Scotland

Major C. K. Hutchinson

• Royal West Norfolk, England (with Horace Hutchinson)
• Woodhall Spa, England
• West Sussex, England

Sir Guy Campbell

• Royal Cinque Ports, England
• West Sussex, England
• A Web Browser’s Guide to UK Golf Courses by Mark Rowlinson

Perry Maxwell

• Prairie Dunes, KS, USA
• Feature Interview with Randy Hunt
• Maxwell’s Old Town Club as profiled by Dunlop White
• The Designer from the Great Plains by Chris Clouser
• Why Dornick Hills should be Restored by Chris Clouser
• Southern Hills: Maxwell’s Crown Jewel by Chris Clouser
• Feature Interview with Chris Clouser

1930

• Leadhills and the Joys of Gutta Percha by Mark Rowlinson
• Feature Interview with Daniel Wexler regarding Missing Links
• Feature Interview No. 2 with Daniel Wexler regarding Lost Links

Eric Apperly

• New South Wales, Australia
• Newcastle, Australia

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1946

Alex Russell

• Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand

1950

Robert Trent Jones, Sr.

• Greenville Country Club (Chanticleer), SC, USA

Press Maxwell

• Prairie Dunes, KS, USA

Ralph Plummer

• Tryall, Jamaica
• Ralph Plummer, Golf Course Architect by Lou Duran & Jeff Brauer

1960

Ellis Maples

• Grandfather Golf & Country Club, NC, USA

Pete Dye

• Blackwolf Run (River), WI, USA
• Honors Course, TN, USA (with P.B. Dye)
• The Golf Club, OH, USA
• The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, SC, USA
• TPC-Sawgrass, FL, USA
• Whistling Straits, WI, USA
• Review of Teeth of the Dog, Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic by Bryan Izatt

Robert Von Hagge

• Boca Rio, FL, USA

1970

Eddie Hackett

• Waterville, Ireland

1980

Ed Seay

• Tralee, Ireland

Jack Nicklaus

• Bintan (Sea View), Indonesia
• Cabo del Sol (The Ocean Course), Mexico
• Chung Shan, China
• May River Golf Club, SC, USA
• The Legends, Malaysia

Tom Fazio

• Forest Creek, NC, USA
• Victoria National, IN, USA
• World Woods (Pine Barrens), FL, USA

1990

Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw

• Bandon Trails, OR, USA
• Chechessee Creek, SC, USA
• Cuscowilla, GA, USA
• Friar’s Head, NY, USA
• Hidden Creek, NJ, USA
• Kapalua (Plantation), HI, USA
• Sand Hills, NE, USA
• Talking Stick (North), AZ, USA
• Feature Interview with Bill Coore
• A Renaissance Movement in Golf Architecture by Tom Paul

Tom Doak

• Apache Stronghold, AZ, USA
• Ballyneal, CO, USA
• Beechtree, MD, USA
• Heathland, SC, USA
• High Pointe, MI, USA
• Lost Dunes, MI, USA
• Pacific Dunes, OR, USA (with Jim Urbina)
• Riverfront, VA, USA
• Feature Interview with Tom Doak no. 2
• Feature Interview with Tom Doak no. 1
• Feature Interview with Jim Urbina
• Feature Interview with Jim O’Neal
• Feature Interview with Mike Keiser
• Feature Interview with Stephen Goodwin
• Feature Interview with Dave Wilber
• A Review of Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links, Tasmania, Australia by Matthew Mollica
• A Review of Gunnamatta Course, St. Andrews Beach, Victoria, Australia by Mark Ferguson

Steve Smyers

• Wolf Run, IN, USA
• Feature Interview with Steve Smyers

Donald Steel & Associates

• Redtail, Ontario, Canada
• Royal Liverpool Golf Club, England
• The Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle, Scotland

Mike Strantz

• Tobacco Road, NC, USA
• Feature Interview with Mike Strantz

Thomson & Wolveridge

• Hope Island, Australia

Tom Weiskopf & Jay Morrish

• Loch Lomond, Scotland
• Loch Lomond as profiled by Jeff Lewis

Bob Harrison

• Moonah Course at The National Golf Club, Australia (with Greg Norman)
• Nirwana Bali, Indonesia (with Greg Norman)
• Feature Interview with Bob Harrison
• National Golf Club (Moonah) as profiled by Matthew Mollica

Pat Ruddy

• The European Club, Ireland

Brian Silva

• Black Creek, TN, USA (with Seth Raynor!)
• Black Rock, MA, USA

Bunker Hill (Dave Axland and Dan Proctor)

• Delaware Springs, TX, USA
• Bunker Hill’s Wild Horse GC as profiled by RJ Daley
• Feature Interview with Dave Axland
• Feature Interview with Don Graham

Gil Hanse

• Craighead Golf Course at Crail, Scotland
• Inniscrone, PA, USA
• Rustic Canyon, CA, USA (wih Jim Wagner and Geoff Shackelford)
• Feature Interview with Gil Hanse

Hurdzan & Fry

• Devil’s Pulpit, Canada
• Devil’s Paintbrush, Canada

Tim Liddy

• Harrison Hills, IN, USA
• Feature Interview with Tim Liddy

David Kidd

• Bandon Dunes, OR, USA
• Feature Interview with Mike Keiser
• Feature Interview with Stephen Goodwin
• Computer Assisted Golf Course Design by Jeremy Glenn

2000

Mike DeVries

• The Kingsley Club, MI, USA
• Marquette (Greywalls), MI, USA
• Feature Interview with Mike DeVries

Mike Clayton

• Feature Interview with Mike Clayton
• Feature Interview No. 3 with Paul Daley re: his book Golf Architecture – A Worldwide perspective
• A Review of Gunnamatta Course, St. Andrews Beach, Victoria, Australia by Mark Ferguson

Baxter Spann

• Black Mesa Golf Club, NM, USA
• Feature Interview with Baxter Spann

Forrest Richardson

• Feature Interview with Forrest Richardson

Bob Cupp

• Feature Interview with Bob Cupp

Mike Nuzzo

• Feature Interview with Mike Nuzzo
• Feature Interview No. 2 with Mike Nuzzo

Richard Mandell

• Feature Interview No. 1 with Richard Mandell
• Feature Interview No. 2 with Richard Mandell

Mark K. Fine

• Feature Interview with Mark K. Fine

Graham Marsh

• Sutton Bay, SD, USA
• Feature Interview with Mark Amundson

Kelly Blake Moran

• Four Seasons Carmelo, Uruguay

Randall Thompson

• Four Seasons Carmelo, Uruguay

Jim Engh

• Feature Interview with Jim Engh