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Mark_Rowlinson

Re:How good is the UK
« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2005, 11:28:56 AM »
Willie,

I'm not sure I quite get your point about Merion.  The main description is of the East Course, the bit about the West only relating to the 6th hole as Jones played it in 1916.  I can say that somebody very well-qualified to do so has been all through the existing North American entries with a fine-tooth comb and when the new edition comes out - shortly now, I suppose - I shall be much relieved that lots of little (and not a few major) errors will be corrected.

I'm going to be in the States towards the end of August.  Who knows, I might even get to peer over the fence at Merion.

Willie_Dow

Re:How good is the UK
« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2005, 12:11:27 PM »
Mark

The description of the sixth hole in the paperback edition, "World Atlas of Golf", printed in 2003, wrongly  calls it a short par-four.  Chapter Four in "Down the Fairway" tells of Jones debut in national championship affairs at the Merion Cricket Club, in 1916, a practice round to the sixth on the West, as "a short pitch down to the green over a brook".  It is a par-three hole, and my only ace was made there 11/15/98, after sixty five years of golf.  We'll play it when you get here.

Andrew Cunningham

Re:How good is the UK
« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2005, 01:33:37 PM »
Mark,

Donald Steel landed the very exclusive (or at least it once was) Redtail Golf Club in St. Thomas, Ontario a few years back and Martin was selected for Tarandowah Golfer's Club again in Southern Ontario a couple of year's ago.  I guess Doug Carrick was so ticked off about losing these jobs he decided to venture into your backyard. ;)
« Last Edit: July 04, 2005, 01:34:34 PM by Andrew "Sales_Guru" Cunningham »

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