When I started working in golf course management in 1982, my first mentor was John Engen, who had built a number of courses for Bob Baldock in the early 1960s.
Among those was MPCC Shore, Butte Creek Country Club in Chico, Ca., and Peach Tree Country Club in Marysville.
I have always considered those three to be Baldock's best contributions to GCA.
I think Engen was most proud of the construction effort at the Shore course.
Upon completion of Butte Creek, which sits on flat land but has a number of good golf holes routed over gravelly flood courses of nearby Butte Creek, Engen stayed on as superintendent.
I always enjoyed the walk around Peach Tree, which had the great advantage of excellent drainage, as it was built on the deep sand of an ancient river course of the Yuba River. Those sandy wastes had alot of movement and elevation changes of 10-20 ft.
Regarding how he got the work he did, Engen said once that Baldock was a..'great salesman'.
That's all I got!
Tom