"It wasn't just Darwin (though he would be enough). There was a fascinating array of people that wrote golf articles for CL. At least if some bibliographies I've seen are to be trusted. I've never seen the actual articles."
Bobzee:
You're kidding right?
Obviously you haven't read Tom MacWood's five part "Arts and Craft Golf" essay closely enough. And obviously you haven't been following this WAR about the significance of the A/C Movement on Golden Age architecture.
Who else wrote about golf for Country Life??
Well, it was HORACE HUTCHINSON, the very first golf writer for Country Life and such an influential writer on architecture was he that he apparently not only inspired Willie Park jr to build the first great and naturalistic looking golf courses INLAND that inspired inland architecture to finally turn back to the linksland model of naturalism but he also taught Park his new naturalist style according to Tom MacWood. We're talking here the initial inland breakthrough courses in the English Heathlands---Sunningdale and Huntercombe.
Then according to Tom's essay Horace Hutchinson who he first called the "Father" of ALL golf architecture (later downgraded to "Guide") continued to use his pulpit at Country Life magazine to inspire all the rest of the Golden Age's architects to follow the "APPROACH" of the Arts and Crafts Movement. This returned golf architecture to the naturalistic linksland model following early golf architecture's (Dark Ages 1880-1900) initial pursuit of some style derived from the Industrial Revolution or Victoriana or or "paganism" or some other such mass-producted style.
Who else other than Darwin wrote for Country Life Magazine???
My God Man, forget about that little nobody writer Darwin, we're talking here only the most influential person in the history of golf course architecture---Horace Hutchinson, THE MAN, THE "GUIDE" or perhaps even THE "FATHER" of golf architecture who brought that extraordinary era of golf architecture from 1900 to 1929 into being!!
We're talking here that great naturalist era in golf architecture's history, perhaps never again to be topped known as "THE AGE of "ARTS AND CRAFTS GOLF""!!
(the same age or era some used to know as "the golden age'').
