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Firestone's South Course - Bert Way?
« on: May 02, 2004, 07:26:53 PM »
I had the opportunity to play yesterday.  Original Architect was Bert Way.  Anyone have any insight on him?

Also, they are in the process of adding new tees (numbers 2 and 11 that I remember.)  Should push this "little" layout to nearly 7500 yards from its current 7360......Oh yeah, par is 70.

What a brute!  Unfortunately the course affords only two options; white tees at 6440 or the before mentioned blues.
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Brad Klein

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Re:Firestone's South Course - Bert Way?
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2004, 11:13:03 PM »
Bert Way ws an Ohio golf pro who was also Donald Ross' construction manager on several projects in the 1920s.
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Jeff_Mingay

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Re:Firestone's South Course - Bert Way?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2004, 09:26:51 AM »
Bert's brother Ernest was also an immigrant pro, from Westward Ho! He was pro/green-keeper at Detroit Golf Club for many years, and supervised construction of Ross' two courses there.  

Ernest went on to design a few more courses throughout Michigan, and the original Essex G&CC course in Windsor, Ontario. (Ross later built Essex a new course, in 1929. The old Way layout was abandoned.)
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Theresa Stotler

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Re:Firestone's South Course - Bert Way?
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2004, 07:19:42 PM »
Bert Way designed a few courses in Ohio including Mayfield CC and Aurora CC . both are great courses and have been the site of some Ohio opens and Qualifers.  It really is a great layout, use of the natural terrain.  Mayfield CC is extremely interesting, Aurora is much more narrow might need some thinning of the trees but extremely tighter than Mayfield.
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