Big Los Angeles Times Article on Strantz and Tobacco Road

[David Kelly]

Apologies if this has already been posted.

In Sunday's Los Angeles Times' Travel section there was a long article on Tobacco Road and Mike Strantz that gets into Stantz' design philosophy and is really something that you would not expect to find in a newspaper.

The article is by Orrin Starn who is a professor of philosophy at Duke.  There is a very good photo gallery and a sidebar where the author picks his modern favorites.

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-ncgolf9mar09

[Jeff_Mingay]

Thanks for this link, David.

I have great respect for Mike Stantz and his golf architecture. It's great to see his work being acknowledged this way, by Orin Starn's wonderful article.

[Chip Gaskins]

More love for one of my favorite courses! 

[Nick Church]

Thank you very much for the link.

Gotta figure out how to PDF such articles for my archives.

[Jim Johnson]

Thanks for this thread, David.

From that article, some pics [hopefully not copyrighted]...





I have yet to play any of Mike's designs, but given the photos I've seen (my current desktop background is a pic of Bull's Bay #1) and the articles that I've read on his courses, I look forward to the opportunity.

JJ

[John Moore II]

I liked this article, it looks at golf courses in a far different light that usually seen. Its odd how he can relate things like that to the culture of a particular area. I would like to see something liek that done with other courses nationwide and how they fit into the culture of a given town. I certainly think Pinehurst Country Club fits in as the resort destination the town was/is.