A Timeless Lamentation

[Jim_Kennedy]

http://tinyurl.com/q2a9nq6

[BCrosby]

Delightful, Jim. Golf architecture in Britain was going through big changes circa 1902.

Was Crumbo Croome the golf editor of The Field as early as 1902? I can't think who else might have written the piece.

Bob

[Jim_Kennedy]

Sorry Bob - don't know the answer to that - but the notion that science is taking the sport out of the game sounds familiar,  and a warm-up for 22 years in the future w/Crane.

[BCrosby]

Jim -

The more I learn about what was going on in Britain circa 1905, the more it is clear to me that Crane raised issues in the mid-1920's that had been debated for a couple of decades.  He had his own twist on things, but basically he was continuing an argument about design principles that first arose with the emergence of what we now call strategic architecture.  The 1902 Croome (?) essay from The Field gives a flavor of that earlier debate.

Bob