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Reunderstanding Ross
MCirba:
--- Quote from: Sven Nilsen on March 28, 2025, 08:57:40 AM ---Mike:
I have four contemporaneous articles from 1931 and 1932 discussing the origination of Rangeley Lakes CC. None of them mention Donald Ross.
At that point of time, if Ross had anything to do with a project like this it most likely would have been mentioned in the press. I have my doubts on this one.
That being said, there were connections between the members of the club and Pinehurst, so I'm not ruling it out entirely.
Sven
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Sven,
Did those other articles mention any hint of a designer?
It's a pretty remote place but yes, most of the landowners and summer cottage crowd were quite affluent and connected.
***EDIT*** Apologies, Sven. I had forgotten that we had a similar discussion about 3 years ago re: Rangeley. I came across a map that showed the locations of the 3 courses and realized the Fenn course was NLE and thought of it as a new finding, which it's not.
Bret Lawrence:
I was reading through ‘Green Grows Bar Harbor’ the other night and came across a mention of Donald Ross writing to Kebo Valley in 1926 to rebuild the third green.
The Donald Ross info starts on the last two lines of the first page.
Green Grows Bar Harbor., 1964. Sargent F. Collier:
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