[Anthony Gholz]

While recently looking for something else I ran across this NGF brochure from my youth.  I believe it'[size=78%]s from the 1960s.  I will post 3-4 pics at a time and hope that 1) someone out there can date the booklet for me,  2) identify author(s), and 3) identify the course designs if built or for a specific site.  Some of them have identifying road names that may jog a memory.[/size]



First the cover and one course design from p.5 maybe Colgate RTJ SR?

[Anthony Gholz]

These are from pages 4 (AGNC) and 6 an individual hole with "outdated" bunkering!  The Augusta shot is a classic that's been posted many times before on gca, but the photo in the booklet is very clear.



also from page 6.  no ID

[Jeff_Brauer]

Anthony,

As it happens, yours truly authored the update to that book in 1981, credited mostly to Killian and Nugent.  My copy, at least, has a bright yellow cover, for whatever reason.

According to the forward of that book,  the version you have was originally part of a 1931 NGF publication called "The Golf Course Organizers Handbook."  I recall at least one of the photos from the original book being Ross bunkers, maybe from Salem, MA?  Also, it appears to me that most of the plans in the book, including the one you show are from Robert Bruce Harris.

Wish I still had the copy of that version, which my Dad wrote away to NGF for in 1967, for his then 12 year old architecture enthusiast.

[Anthony Gholz]

Jeff:


Thankyou.  I will look for Harris' drawings to see style.


The before 1967 time frame sounds about right as I was designing imaginary courses for fun from 1962 on thru high school.  I was originally inspired by RTJ SR's chapter on architecture in HW Wind's The Complete Golfer.  Some great drawings in that book.  I then wrote away for anything that golf organizations would give away free to a jr high kid about golf courses. 


The 1931 date you give for The GC Organizers' Handbook is confirmed in the forward, but there is no date anywhere for the booklet or drawings.  This booklet also gives no credit for writing or drawings, but a couple of the sketches look to me like Cornish and another one or two RTJ Sr. 


Here are a couple more for perusal.  Maybe someone can id the courses and or holes.  Although Rancho Park is identified the drawing is very crude and not of the style of any others in the booklet.


Tony

[Jeff_Brauer]

Anthony,

Sounds like we took a similar wasted youth path.....

That Rancho Park is definitely a different style, and might even be from a newspaper or something, rather than an architects drawing board.

I could be wrong about Harris. It looks like his style from plans I have seen, but his career started in 1927, 4 years before the book was published.  Not sure when he went to his famous "Clamshell" bunkers for low maintenance, but it would have been after 1931, from the stories I hear.  This also has many fore bunkers well short of the LZ, which in later years, at least RBH wouldn't have done.

Not really sure where NGF would have gotten those materials and why.  Some more research is certainly warranted over my recollections only.

[Joe_Tucholski]

That Rancho Park is definitely a different style, and might even be from a newspaper or something, rather than an architects drawing board.

The Rancho drawing almost looks like a "caricature" of a course layout.  The routing is no longer as it's pictured so I'm not sure how much of the changes in scale and orientation are based on the changes.

[Sven Nilsen]

That Rancho Park is definitely a different style, and might even be from a newspaper or something, rather than an architects drawing board.

The Rancho drawing almost looks like a "caricature" of a course layout.  The routing is no longer as it's pictured so I'm not sure how much of the changes in scale and orientation are based on the changes.

Joe:


What is different about the routing?


If you flip north for south on the map, the course looks almost exactly the same as the drawing.


Sven

[Anthony Gholz]

This is p20 from the booklet

[Anthony Gholz]

The final full course diagram.  This one looks like Colonial in Ft Worth before the river took out a couple holes.  Lee Trevino called the eighth the best par-3 in Texas.

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