Thanks guys for the kind words.
Joe, I was wondering if I was going to hear back from you regarding my musical tastes. I’m guessing that the Sigur Ros music was a deal breaker, give them another try and start with Popplagið, if it’s not on the disk then I apologise. Also, keep in mind that they are from Iceland.
Josh, thanks for the words and I will keep you guys informed on any new info that I find.
Ian, I could give you a list of what I have found, but I would rather say that I like to figure things out and find things that others can’t. I am in the process of putting together a concise history of the SFGC’s Tillinghast course. All that I will say for now is that I hope to look at a course routing map that will show me the course in 1918 prior to Tillie’s arrival. I hope it will make for some interesting insight in what Tille and the club decided to do. You may remember my post on GCA about Bell Sr. being responsible for the “lacy” edged bunkers that were done in 1930.
Most of all my research is old school as they have yet to digitize the old papers here. I have gone through the San Francisco Chronicle from Feb of 1920 to Aug of 1927 looking at the sports page and the Sunday photo section. I had to stop for about a month as I my eyes were getting ready to spin around in my head after looking at microfilm for 5 hours at a time. Needless to say I have learned a lot about golf in the Bay area and hope to one day put it into a book. I like to help people and courses where I can and make sure that people are more aware of their given courses history.
I have to take my hat off to Neil, Nick Leefe, and Mark Bourgeois as we have taken the MacKenzie Chronology research to a whole new level. The increase in information from the 13th version to the 14th was astonishing and we managed to one up it with our 15th version. I look forward to having more input from people on the AMC and continue to find new and interesting information that will reshape our ideas about AM and Robert Hunter as well.
Tully