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David Kelly

Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road
« on: March 10, 2008, 03:54:24 PM »
Apologies if this has already been posted.

In Sunday's Los Angeles Times' Travel section there was a long article on Tobacco Road and Mike Strantz that gets into Stantz' design philosophy and is really something that you would not expect to find in a newspaper.

The article is by Orrin Starn who is a professor of philosophy at Duke.  There is a very good photo gallery and a sidebar where the author picks his modern favorites.

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-ncgolf9mar09
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Jeff_Mingay

Re: Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 04:34:45 PM »
Thanks for this link, David.

I have great respect for Mike Stantz and his golf architecture. It's great to see his work being acknowledged this way, by Orin Starn's wonderful article.
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Chip Gaskins

Re: Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2008, 04:48:39 PM »
More love for one of my favorite courses! 
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Nick Church

Re: Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2008, 06:05:19 PM »
Thank you very much for the link.

Gotta figure out how to PDF such articles for my archives.
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Jim Johnson

Re: Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2008, 08:51:48 PM »
Thanks for this thread, David.

From that article, some pics [hopefully not copyrighted]...





I have yet to play any of Mike's designs, but given the photos I've seen (my current desktop background is a pic of Bull's Bay #1) and the articles that I've read on his courses, I look forward to the opportunity.

JJ
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John Moore II

Re: Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2008, 01:04:44 AM »
I liked this article, it looks at golf courses in a far different light that usually seen. Its odd how he can relate things like that to the culture of a particular area. I would like to see something liek that done with other courses nationwide and how they fit into the culture of a given town. I certainly think Pinehurst Country Club fits in as the resort destination the town was/is.
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