[Ally Mcintosh]

In the eyes of the commentators / critics / journalists, there have been at least two.

Darwin and others wrote about the new "modern American style" of architecture, raised greens, more construction etc... etc... Thing is he was referring to Colt et al, in essence The Golden Age styles and philosophies.

We also know that the 50's / 60's Trent Jones influence was again seen as a modern birth in golf course design.

I don't believe you can call the current naturalist style a modern birth as it looks back for its inspiration.

Have there been any more than two?

[Steve Lang]

   it depends on your historical perspective... eras are pretty long periods of time aren't they, like 3 decades or 50 years or so? 


with apologies to wikipedia..
     General periods
Universal history
Prehistory – Period before written golf history, when the game was played whilst doing other things, hunting for food, making shelters, etc..  The Romans brought paganica into the earliest lexicon of golfing as may be differentiated from “craic” or fun and games and chuνw αn in China
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human golfing history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era of golf course architecture and design. The span of recorded GCA history is roughly 500-600 years, beginning with the oldest discovered forms of coherent pictures and written descriptions of the game and its playing fields.
•Protohistory– Period between prehistory and history, during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed its writing skills about golf but other cultures have already noted its existence in their own writings
•Classical antiquity – Broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the British Isles and Ireland, comprising the interlocking influence of civilizations of ancient Rome, Germans, and the Vikings, collectively known as the Kick Yer Anglo Butt world. It is the period in which sticks and stones did break bones before society flourished and golf began wielding greater influence on the citizens looking to hit things from point A to point B.
Post-classical history – Period of time that immediately followed ancient history. Depending on the continent, the era generally falls between the years when classical GCA was merely a thought, and when civilized players began working on protecting and building their empires through GCA.
•          Middle Ages – It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
•               Early Middle Ages
•               High Middle Ages – The game of Cricket comes out of the woods.
•               Late Middle Ages
•   Modern history – After the post-classical era
•         Early modern period – The Open is played in 1860 and the term “belts & suspenders” is invented by a witty golf man of letters.
•         Late modern period –  Donald Ross is born in Scotland, 1872.
•         Machine Age (1880–1945)  GCA transitions from horses to horsepower, but D. Ross is “Mr. Natural”.
•              Age of Oil (after 1901)  RT Jones is born in 1906. Horses for courses, but no professional golfers please.  Professional GCA’s ok, with proper golfing pedigree of course, details may be provided by others.
•            World War I (1914–1918)  The art of war invades GCA psyche, visuals are important, if you think about it, downright deceptive.
•         Interwar period (1918–1939)  RT Jones goes to college at Cornell.  Pete Dye is born in Urbana,OH, 1925, backyard golf design can make significant impressions, on the impressionables.
•              Roaring Twenties(1920–1929)  Anything goes, especially with other people’s money.
•              Great Depression(1929 – World War II)  Resources are focused on survival and personal sacrifice by many.  GCA not so important in the big picture.
•         World War II (1939–1945)  Tom Fazio is born in 1945
•          Atomic Age(after 1945)
•                Post-war era (1946–1962)
•                 The Fifties (1950–1959)
•                Cold War(Soviet Union and United States, and their allies, 1945–1989 or 1991)
•                        Korean War(1950–1953)
•                        Vietnam War (1955–1975)
•                        Space Age (after 1957)
•                    The Sixties (1960–1969)  Tom Doak is born in 1961.
•                         Post-Modern (Soviet Union and United States, 1973–present)
•          Information Age (1970–present)
•                   The Seventies (1970–1979) Tom Doak goes to college at Cornell after a very brief period at MIT.
•                   The Eighties (1980–1989)
•                   The Nineties (1990–1999)
•                   The 2000s (2000–2009)
•                   War on Terrorism (2001–present)
•                   War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)
•                   War in Iraq (2003–2011)
•                     The Social Age (2004–present)
•                     The 2010s (2010–2019)
•                     The Big Data age (2001–present)  Big Brother is watching,… everything.
•                     The Multimedia Age (1987–20++)
•                     Contemporary history – History within living memory. It shifts forward with the generations.
 

[Peter Pallotta]

Fascinating question, Ally. I'd imagine that, in retrospect, any 'current' generation/era tends to see previous ones as more static and less dynamic than they actually were. Besides the ones you've mentioned, I think of some of the first golf-focused planned communities/housing estates  in England (eg St George Hill) as 'modern'; and I think of CBM at NGLA as modern, and so too the early Pete Dye-Jack Nicklaus collaborations;  and I think a case can be made as well for Sand Hills, and for all the work in China, and for Mike Keiser's retail golfer concept as all being then-modern phenomena.
Peter

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