Hello all,
My name is Bill McKinley and I'm the 1st Assistant at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio. Hopefully most or all of you know about Canterbury, if not read Ran's write up on it.
I came across GCA a few years ago and really just started to ready through all of the write ups. Then as my eye for architecture grew I started to lurk on the discussion board more and more until I sent Ran a note asking if I could become a member, he said yes and that's where we are today.
As for me, I really enjoy being in the golf business as a Professional. You'll hear a lot of guys in our line of work complain about the hours and the lack of golf that they get to play. But, I do not find that to be the case. Getting a ticket to the Masters should be reason enough for me to be happy to be a PGA Member, but there are many other reasons that stick out too.
Like how bout the fact that I've played courses like Merion, Oakmont, Seminole, Oakland Hills, Oak Hill and many others, not to mention a trip to Scotland last year, all because of my contacts in the PGA and the members of my club.
From an architecture standpoint I played my 1st Seth Raynor course this year, Fox Chapel, and came away a HUGE fan of his work and want to see more and more of what he did in his great, but short career as a golf course architect. I also enjoy true Donald Ross courses a lot and think that Tom Doak and his team, including Bruce Hepner, at Renaissance Golf are doing great things these days.
I look forward very much to getting into discussions and finding out new things on this board. Also, if someone could help me with how you post pictures on here that would be great. I think it has to do with using photobucket or flikr but I'm not sure.
Thanks all...
See you on the board!
Bill