I did an interview with Stephen Kay that's published below and will be up at Golf Observer soon with photos and drawings.
In a related matter, are any other wordpress useers having trouble using their photobucket acct? I can't seem to post photos the old way of "copy image location." Any troubleshooting help is appreciated. Meanwhile, Stephen had soe really interesting things to say.
http://jayflemma.thegolfspace.com/?p=2125From the interview:
"So one day I’m bored in school, and so I started doodling golf holes. Well that month, Golf Digest had the first of a two-part article by Herbert Warren Wind called something like “Understanding Golf Architecture.” Ron Whitten would later call it a definitive article in golf course architecture history. Well I couldn’t wait for next month’s piece, and as soon as I got done with the article, I actually got down and prayed to God that I would become a golf course architect. It became my childhood dream. I still tear up thinking about that memory to this day because I was a kid with a dream and God let me achieve it and I’m so grateful for that blessing and all the rest. I even just teared up a bit now thinking about it.
It’s like Mike Schmidt the baseball player. He teared up when he got inducted into the Baseball H.O.F. in Cooperstown. People don’t realize how much childhood dreams mean to people. My dad worked on an assembly line, and he said, “This is crazy. They’ll never let a poor kid in a rich man’s game.” We didn’t know that so much of the game is played on public courses, so we thought it was a real long shot."
