Man discovers dormant MacKenzie golf course

[Terry Lavin]

Fascinating article in today’s New York Times:


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/sports/golf/rhayader-mackenzie-augusta-course.html

[Peter Flory]

That's great!  I love the part where he found the old cups with a metal detector. 

[Daryl "Turboe" Boe]

Fascinating article in today’s New York Times:


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/sports/golf/rhayader-mackenzie-augusta-course.html

Do you need the paid subscription?  Whats the Cliff Notes version?  Where is it?

[Terry Lavin]

Short story:  A guy lives in Rhayader in Wales and becomes obsessed with a big parcel of land that looks like it might’ve been a golf course. He surveys the property with some help and then does some research that suggests Mackenzie had built a course there.


He goes out with a metal detector and finds some old golf hole cups. Then he finds some routing information and he cobbles together a golf course for a one- day charity outing.


A very interesting article. Wish I could send a better link but this is from my NYT app.

[David_Tepper]

More info here:

https://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2021/5/16/chris-powells-mackenzie-obsessive-one-day-reclamation-is-featured-by-the-ny-times-golfcom

And here:

https://golf.com/travel/how-abandoned-alister-mackenzie-course-rose-from-ashes/

[Thomas Dai]

See this old GCA thread about the MacKenzie course at Rhayader which has had various updates added including some recently - https://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,52664.0.html
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[Ira Fishman]

I wish I had accomplished something as creative and rewarding during the pandemic.


Ira

[Terry Lavin]

I wish I had accomplished something as creative and rewarding during the pandemic.


Ira

Almost unimaginable.

[Terry Lavin]

Just saw the other, older, and more provocative thread. Please delete this one..,