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RDecker

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One Hit Wonders
« on: November 15, 2001, 03:34:00 AM »
A Vendor stopped in yesterday and was talking
about an upcoming trip to Cape Cod during which he would play the Kittanset Club. My
Question is, Is Fred Hood the greatest of
the "One Hit Wonders"?  If not Who is?
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B. Reader

One Hit Wonders
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2001, 03:39:00 AM »
George Crump with Pine Valley
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Mark Studer

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2001, 04:18:00 AM »
H.C.Fownes and his son,W.C., at Oakmont..they worked on their masterpiece from 1903 til WC's death in 1950.
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Mark Studer

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2001, 04:24:00 AM »
H.C.Fownes and his son,W.C., at Oakmont..they worked on their masterpiece from 1903 til WC's death in 1950.
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Gene Greco

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2001, 04:34:00 AM »
Jack Neville - Pebble
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SPDB

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2001, 04:51:00 AM »
Sam Whiting - Olympic GC, Lake
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THuckaby2

One Hit Wonders
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2001, 04:53:00 AM »
Ah, Gene, how soon they forget... Jack Neville also laid out Pacific Grove Muni!

TH

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aclayman

One Hit Wonders
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2001, 04:58:00 AM »
Th- I would check that fact. I am under the assumption that Mr. Neville was called over for his opinion but the archie was someone else. I also could be wrong, mostly because the history, as it exists in the library, is limited or more than likely a guarded secret.
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RDecker

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2001, 05:09:00 AM »
Because the fact that Oakmont was lavished
over for such a long period of time I would
have to consider it a non-traditional design-
designer relationship.  Oakmont gets an
asteriks.
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THuckaby2

One Hit Wonders
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2001, 05:10:00 AM »
Heck Adam, you'd know better than I would, that's for sure... that's just always how the origins of PG Muni were described to me.

Gene, if I am indeed wrong, my apologies!

TH

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aclayman

One Hit Wonders
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2001, 05:17:00 AM »
Th - The fact that I am not sure is but the tip of the iceberg of the underlying problems there.
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Jim_Kennedy

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2001, 10:58:00 AM »
According to C&W: Neville laid out several courses, none of which were built. He assisted George C. Thomas at Bel Air and Bob Baldock at the Shore course for MPCC in 1961.  He also laid out a second nine on dunes for PGMGC in 1959.  
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Jim_Kennedy

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2001, 11:32:00 AM »
Arthur Fenn, America's first native born professional, laid out the Poland Springs, Me. golf course and nothing else.
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Jeff_Lewis

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One Hit Wonders
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2001, 12:09:00 PM »
How about Nipper Campbell at Moraine in Ohio? A delightful layout.
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Mike_Cirba

One Hit Wonders
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2001, 12:30:00 PM »
James "Nipper" Campbell also did Forest Park in Baltimore, as well as a few others.  
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2009, 10:27:55 AM »
Any other good one-hit wonders?

Personally, I vote for Fownes.
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TEPaul

Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2009, 10:42:53 AM »
I take note of the initial post on this thread by RDecker in which he mentions that Frederick Hood may've been one of the best of the "one hit" wonders with his Kittanset. I also take note of the date of that initial post----eg back in 2001.

I note that in the meantime we proved to the club that Frederick Hood did not design Kittanset, even if he was extremely central in a number of other ways to the club's and course's creation and development; Philadelphia's William Flynn designed Kittanset and we found all Flynn's drawings to prove it (apparently after 2001).
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Ronald Montesano

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2009, 10:55:28 AM »
1.  Which architects SHOULD have been one-hit wonders?

2.  R. Decker...unacceptable.  No one appoints himself as the doler of asterisks.  Fownes counts.

3.  I think you look at Crump and you look at Fownes and you say, damn, they're both hot!!!
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TEPaul

Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2009, 04:48:51 PM »
I think I'd have to say the greatest "one-hit-wonder" in the history of golf course architecture is Tommy Birdsong.
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Matt_Cohn

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2009, 04:52:30 PM »
Quote from: SPDB on November 15, 2001, 04:51:00 AM
Sam Whiting - Olympic GC, Lake

Whiting is also credited at Harding Park and Sonoma GC, so I'm not sure he really counts.
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JMEvensky

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2009, 09:53:09 AM »
Quote from: TEPaul on November 22, 2009, 04:48:51 PM
I think I'd have to say the greatest "one-hit-wonder" in the history of golf course architecture is Tommy Birdsong.

Fernandina Muni?
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Jon Spaulding

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2009, 11:03:10 AM »
James Harrison Smith.....Santa Anita.

His name was better suited to being the president of the US.
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Mark Pritchett

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2009, 11:13:47 AM »
I think the term "One Hit Wonder" can certainly apply to architects that have done multiple courses, much like one hit wonders in music usually have several songs. 

So which architects have done multiple courses, yet only one really renowned course?

I'll start with Ellis Maples (Grandfather Mountain).

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Scott Warren

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2009, 01:59:29 PM »
Did Harry Hunter do any work of note beyond the conception of Royal Cinque Ports?
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Joe Perches

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2009, 02:53:41 PM »
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