Rating Famous Golf Courses (1926)

[Mark Saltzman]

This thousand points is divided under Design and Layout as follows:
Points Tees (includingsizeand contour)................................................... 40
Rough (includingcharacter,width,andcontour)........................................ 80
Fairways (including width and contour)...............................................250
Traps (includingall formsof shot control,location,sizeand shape).....................140
Greens (includingshape, size, and contour).........................................250
Parallel Holes................................................................... 20
Visibility (Tee Shot 65, Green Shot 135)........................................200
Distance Green to Tee........................................................ 20
——— 1000

http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/GolfIllustrated/1926/gi244k.pdf

[Mark Saltzman]

And a follow-up: Poor Old St. Andrews

http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/GolfIllustrated/1926/gi245j.pdf

Muirfield............ 86.5
Gleneagles........... 84.6
Prince's............. 83.8
Troon............... 83.0
St. George's . . . . . . . . . . 82.1
Hoylake............. 81.5
WaltonHeath........ 80.4
...
St A's........71.8 (aka dead last)

[Mark Bourgeois]

Grasshopper: http://www.golfclubatlas.com/in-my-opinion/joshua-crane-part-i/

Beware Crane, he's the Jeremy Bentham of GCA! (Although his ideas on TOC 1 were kinda cool.)

[Mark Saltzman]

Master, forgiveness please.

I will continue searching.

[Mark Bourgeois]

It's a great topic.

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,31490.0.html

EDIT closer to the topic:
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,42672.0.html

[Sean_A]

Its still fascinating to see rating criteria such as this and compare it to CBM's list of features and their relative importance.  Anyway, the idea of visibility being worth 1/5th the "value" of a design is incredible.  That someone thought it important to list (and be so weighty) this topic suggests there was a serious "problem" with blind shots.  It would be interesting to gain an idea of what percentage of shots were blind pre-1900 and of what type they were.  I never got the impression that most courses had a ton of blind shots - especially the championship courses.

Ciao

[Mac Plumart]

One of the most important debates in the history of golf, IMO.  In fact, I think it is still going on...regardless of whether the people debating the topics realize it or not.

[Melvyn Morrow]

Is Rating courses being anti-golf