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David_Tepper

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A. Mackenzie in Woodside, CA
« on: January 11, 2008, 08:14:23 PM »
The January 11 issue of GolfWorld has a nice article, drawings included, on Alister Mackenzie's plan to build a golf course (Woodside Country Club) near Palo Alto around 1930. The course was to be part of a 400-home housing development (no fairway condos were planned   ;)), but the project never happened due to the Depression.

I will check to see if the article is available online at GolfWorld.com

ed_getka

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Re:A. Mackenzie in Woodside, CA
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 09:56:13 PM »
David,
  Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I have never heard of this project before.
"Perimeter-weighted fairways", The best euphemism for containment mounding I've ever heard.

Mark Bourgeois

Re:A. Mackenzie in Woodside, CA
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2008, 10:41:50 PM »

David_Tepper

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Re:A. Mackenzie in Woodside, CA
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2008, 11:39:14 PM »
Mark B. -

Thanks for reminding us of the prior discussion of this "would have been" project. As usual, gca.com was way ahead (1 year!) of the rest of the golf press on this topic.

While the headline for the GolfWorld article ("California Dreamin'") is shown on the golfworld.com website, the article in the magazine does not come up when you click the link. I will try again in a day or two and see if the article is available.

DT    

Mark Bourgeois

Re:A. Mackenzie in Woodside, CA
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2008, 09:13:25 AM »
David,

When I went to the Golf World site looking for it I did come across this neat piece:
http://www.golfdigest.com/golfworld/lido

Mark

Joel_Stewart

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Re:A. Mackenzie in Woodside, CA
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2008, 11:54:48 AM »
$3,000 prize for the competition is interesting.  It's kind of a shame that the Mackenzie Society (or the USGA) could not help financially with the rebuilding of some his courses.