Geeze, I never thought anybody with interests similar to mine would complain about another interesting links golf course being built.
Can there be too many real links? Is one more not a great idea?
When I saw the story with the shameless mention of building the world's greatest golf course, I laughed and immediately dug out the copy of the old early 1920's New York Times article thatI copied off a scanned image from GCA, in which it had been proclaimed that Charlie Macdonald was in the procees of building a course that would be "The Finest in the World" on Long Island (The 'National Golf Links.')
And it got me thinking; if C.B. were alive today, would he not be something very close to Donald Trump? Obviously, spending two years with Old Tom and Young Tom, and being a good enough player to regularly reach the finals of the national amateur championship distiguishes C.B. from The Donald.
Oh, also that part about him being the visionary father of American golf and a minor genius in golf course design...
But, in truth, C.B. had his own share of ego-driven p.r. disasters, and he was of the school that gave us Chicago architect Daniel Burnham of the same era, and indeed the same city as C.B. And it was Burnham who said, "Make no small plans..."
My real gripe in all of this, is not the golf course at all -- It is the abomination of a 20 or 30-story hotel and casino tower. That you won't be able to avoid, visually. Where's a good eco-terrorist when you need one?