1917 Article on Langford

[Tim_Cronin]

FYI to online microfilm diggers: Cox Newspapers has withdrawn the Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach Post and Miami News from the Google Newspapers archive. Don't know if they'll appear elsewhere. Some issues of the Palm Beach Post from 1916-1921 are still on Newspapers.com.

[Bill_McBride]

Bill:


The article noting the Pensacola course is from 1931.  I doubt it is referencing a course built in 1942.


Sven

Good point!

[Jud_T]

So If Langford was working well into the 50's does this make him the best architect still active in the Dark Ages (Post WWII to pre- Gulf War I)? And don't say Pete Dye, who while very important historically and a great mentor for the current generation, I'd put below Langford in terms of lasting greatness.

[Nigel Islam]

So If Langford was working well into the 50's does this make him the best architect still active in the Dark Ages (Post WWII to pre- Gulf War I)? And don't say Pete Dye, who while very important historically and a great mentor for the current generation, I'd put below Langford in terms of lasting greatness.

Since he did not have Moreau's shaping expertise I'm not sure that one could classify his later efforts as the "best" in this time frame. I am a fan of Billy Langford, but I have played some of his 50s stuff.  It is frankly not all that exciting.

[Sven Nilsen]

Another one, this one with an interesting tie in to Kansas golf history.

The Aug. 14, 1921 Wichita Daily Eagle reports Langford designed a private 9 hole course for Emerson Carey in Hutchinson.  Carey would later go on to found Prairie Dunes.

[Sven Nilsen]

Modern day aerial of Willow Brook.  Strange lay out.

[Rees Milikin]

Modern day aerial of Willow Brook.  Strange lay out.

Nice find and barely any info to be found.  Would love to see an old aerial.

[Sven Nilsen]

Some more early Langford work, this time remodeling the Rock Island Arsenal course.


Chicago Daily Tribune - May 6, 1919

[Sven Nilsen]

A little follow up on the CC of Lincoln.

Here's a Dec. 30, 1917 Lincoln Star article noting the course was designed by Langford and Charles Johnston.





Compare the 1917 plans with the current layout.  The course has been credited to Willie Tucker and G. MacMillan with a date of 1923.  If they did indeed build the course then, it was built to the plans of Langford and Johnston.

[Sven Nilsen]

At the end of this paragraph from a Feb. 26, 1922 Miami Herald article is a mention of a 36 hole Langford project in Osceola, Missouri.


Anyone ever heard of this project?