Firestone's South Course - Bert Way?

[CharlestonBuckeye]

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.

[Brad Klein]

Bert Way ws an Ohio golf pro who was also Donald Ross' construction manager on several projects in the 1920s.

[Jeff_Mingay]

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.)

[Theresa Stotler]

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.