Arthur Tull - Info?

[Jerry Kluger]

I recently joined a club and the course was designed by Arthur Tull.  My research has turned up very limited information and I was wondering what others might know about him.  The course is pretty straight forward with limited fairway bunkering and very small greens that are strongly sloped but not heavily contoured.  

[Kyle Harris]

Arthur or Alfred?

Alfred Tull worked with Dev Emmet and did a bunch of courses in the NYC Metro area, especially Long Island.

The addition of 18 holes to the Bethpage facility in the 1950s was overseen by Tull and his work can be seen on the Yellow and Blue courses where it is integrated with much of the original Tillinghast design.

[Jerry Kluger]

My mistake - it was Alfred Tull.

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Jerry

I found this:

www.rockleigh.org/Recreation/Golf/Tull_abc.htm

Very prolific guy.

[wsmorrison]

Alfred Tull designed the original nine holes for the Hercules Powder Company in Delaware.  He may have beaten Flynn out for the job.  Flynn supplied a proposal but it was not accepted.  The eventual job went to Tull, but that was several years later.  Either Flynn wasn't available or they liked Tull's work better for whatever reason.

[Craig Disher]

Jerry,
If you joined a club with one course - I'm pretty sure I know where you are. Tull also designed both the Woodmont CC courses in Rockville and the NLE Brooke Manor.  He must have been the only game in town between WWII and the late 1950s. I've always wondered if Flynn would have received those commissions had he lived longer.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

I've seen his brother Jethro's work.....It's thick as a brick.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Surprised we made it all the way to post #6. Has potential to win "Emily Litella" threadjack of the year.

Was Alfred the builder / drummer who choked on vomit?

[Kyle Harris]

I've seen his brother Jethro's work.....It's thick as a brick.

Right, but the subtlety could skate away on the thin ice of a new day.

[Mike_Cirba]

I've seen his brother Jethro's work.....It's thick as a brick.

Right, but the subtlety could skate away on the thin ice of a new day.

Tull had a job in the jungle once, but I understand he bungled it.  

Actually, I've played a number of his courses and let's just say he didn't seem to learn much from Emmett in terms of creativity and daring.

[Jon Spaulding]

Surprised we made it all the way to post #6. Has potential to win "Emily Litella" threadjack of the year.

Was Alfred the builder / drummer who choked on vomit?

Perhaps he was the drummer that choked on "someone elses" vomit.

[Wayne_Kozun]

Surprised we made it all the way to post #6. Has potential to win "Emily Litella" threadjack of the year.

Was Alfred the builder / drummer who choked on vomit?

Perhaps he was the drummer that choked on "someone elses" vomit.

"You can't dust vomit for fingerprints" - Nigel Tufnel

[Jon Spaulding]

Surprised we made it all the way to post #6. Has potential to win "Emily Litella" threadjack of the year.

Was Alfred the builder / drummer who choked on vomit?

Perhaps he was the drummer that choked on "someone elses" vomit.

"You can't dust vomit for fingerprints" - Nigel Tufnel

Since you asked for it...of course the text does not do the interchange justice...especially the slight pause in the last sentence ......
 
MARTY: And he was replaced by...uh....
DAVID: Stumpy Joe - Eric Stumpy Joe Childs.
MARTY: What happened to Stumpy Joe?
DEREK: Well, uh, it’s not a very pleasant story..but, uh,
DAVID: He’s passed on.
DEREK: he died. uh...he choked on..the ac- the official explanation was he choked on vomit.
NIGEL: It was actually, was actually someone else’s vomit. It’s not....
DAVID: It’s ugly.
NIGEL: You know. There’s no real....
DEREK: You know they can’t prove whose vomit it was...they don’t have the facilities at Scotland Yard....
DAVID: You can’t print…there’s no way to print a spectra-photograph.
NIGEL: You can’t really dust for vomit.

[Jonathan Cummings]

Not too difficult a quiz as Tull's only other MD effort other than Woodmont is Norbeck CC.  Eddie Ault did rework of NCC in the 1970s.

JC

[Mark Bourgeois]

Boo Jonathan!

Does this mean he didn't design Stonehenge? The one that got crushed by dwarfs? (For Tom Paul: "dwarves.")

[Jon Spaulding]

Remember, the designer of Stonehenge was none other than Anjelica Huston, academy award winner....

[grandwazo]

As someone who has played a Tull course for the past twenty years, I fully appreciate, understand and approve of the direction this thread has gone in....

[Norbert P]

  I was going to Copy and Paste the Alfred Tull data but the website has a much more charming presentation.

  http://www.rockleigh.org/Recreation/Golf/Tull.htm


  (The music is not by Jethro Tull.)  

  "It seems that I'm the only one that can dance to our music."  Ian Anderson paraphrased

[Mike_Cirba]

As someone who has played a Tull course for the past twenty years, I fully appreciate, understand and approve of the direction this thread has gone in....

That's perhaps the funniest, most subtly understated line I've ever read on this website!  

Jonathan,

You should be aware that Tull did most of the Green Something course out near Salisbury.   You know the one...I've played it but don't have time to dig up my notes, and the day I was there I was bitten so many times by Green Head flies that it will always be Green Head CC to me anyway.   It's a really awful course that has the distinction of being one of a very few that are private on the eastern half of the state.

[Jonathan Cummings]

Mike - you're right as usual.  It's Green Hill Yacht & CC.  I've never played it and know little about it.  JC

[Mark_Fine]

For anyone interested, there is a nice article on Alfred Tull in Golf World dated December 11, 1964.  It is titled "Architect Tull Aims to Build Courses to Suit Players".