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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Joe Bausch on February 20, 2014, 05:49:35 PM

Title: "A Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Joe Bausch on February 20, 2014, 05:49:35 PM

That is the title of a piece I wrote for Joe Logan's MyPhillyGolf.com:

http://myphillygolf.com/detail.asp?id=14548 (http://myphillygolf.com/detail.asp?id=14548)

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Joe Sponcia on February 20, 2014, 06:08:04 PM

Joe,

Really cool find.  Thanks so much for posting this.

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Jim_Kennedy on February 20, 2014, 07:04:17 PM

Nice going Joe.

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Tyler Kearns on February 20, 2014, 07:18:15 PM

Joe,

Great work, thank you for sharing it with everybody.

TK

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Mark McKeever on February 20, 2014, 08:53:53 PM

Great stuff as always!!

Mark

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Tim Martin on February 21, 2014, 08:13:58 AM

Joe- Thank you for your tireless efforts to unearth so much fascinating information. I am looking forward to accessing the links you have provided and reading Tilly's writings.

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Malcolm Mckinnon on February 21, 2014, 11:46:27 PM

Joe,

I will bump this thread just because what you have dug up is a treasure trove. Thanks again!

Cabin Fever yet?

Malcolm

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Joe Bausch on February 22, 2014, 09:22:07 AM

Quote from: Malcolm Mckinnon on February 21, 2014, 11:46:27 PM

Joe,

Cabin Fever yet?

Malcolm

Yes.  Buena Vista at 12:34 today.  Yell if interested.

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Joe Bausch on October 16, 2014, 07:50:36 AM

With Tilly having been recently inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, I thought this thread was worth revisiting.  His writings in the Public Ledger and Philadelphia Record are worth the read, IMHO.

And I just recently ran into another series of articles he wrote in late 1915/6 for the Washington Herald.  I have compiled them here:

http://xchem.villanova.edu/~bausch/images/AWT_GolfGambols/

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Joe Bausch on January 11, 2015, 09:23:59 AM

While writing as the golf editor in 1911 for the Public Ledger, Tillinghast almost certainly also penned these "Golf Comments". The style is too similar to not be his writing:

http://xchem.villanova.edu/~bausch/images/1911_AWT_golfcomments/

This thread contains links to a voluminous amount of writings by Tillinghast when golf was really exploding in the USA.  Perhaps Ran can consider adding this thread to the literature section of the Best of Golf.

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: SWolffe on January 11, 2015, 10:22:36 AM

Nice article Joe! 

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Peter Pallotta on January 11, 2015, 11:34:04 AM

Excellent, Joe. Your work (current on ongoing, creating such collections) is stellar. And, as I meant to post on your othe thread about early reviews of courses like Shinnecock, it is invaluable to be reminded of what folks back then actually said (and might have actually meant). What we then do with that -- whatever kind of narrating or textual analysis -- is another matter.

Thanks again
Peter

Title: Re: "The Treasure Trove of Golf Writing by A.W. Tillinghast"
Post by: Joe Bausch on July 26, 2016, 11:56:26 AM

With this week being the PGA at Baltusrol, Tillinghast is getting plenty of attention.  For instance, the piece on The Golf Channel that ran during "Live From the PGA" yesterday:

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/ginella-baltusrol-designer-aw-tillinghast (http://www.golfchannel.com/media/ginella-baltusrol-designer-aw-tillinghast)

Some may not know how much Tilly wrote in Philadelphia area papers.  Hence, I've bumped this thread.