What if landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted had designed golf courses?

[Ronald Montesano]

Well? Have at it.

[Garland Bayley]

The would have been beautified with trees and shrubs.

[Howard Riefs]

I'll defer to the wisdom of Tom MacWood and TEPaul when they discussed this topic:

http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php?topic=16069.0

[John McCarthy]

This is one of the questions that led me to this website. 

[Brad Klein]

Golf would be a public game, open to the average citizen, and would be part of an everyday person's education as a responsible,  democratic person.

[Blake Conant]

Well? Have at it.

residential golf community model and he probably would've moved more earth than most architects working at that time.    

[Brad Wilbur]

I would have been trying to access Central park Country Club.

[Carl Johnson]

I'll defer to the wisdom of Tom MacWood and TEPaul when they discussed this topic:

http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php?topic=16069.0

Read it.  Excellent thread.  Olmsted did the design for the neighborhood I've lived in for 37 years.  However, the developer made several changes to the plan when he built out the streets.  Has that every happened to a course designer?  

[Peter Pallotta]

Golf would be a public game, open to the average citizen, and would be part of an everyday person's education as a responsible,  democratic person.

Indeed, and we would all live in the ever-new bliss of the Eternal Now, beyond personality and the apparent dualities inherent in matter and time, and we'd hit Hogan 3 irons as confidently and masterfully as the latest pitching wedge, and pretty girls would like us and smile at all our jokes. Oh, damn you cruel fate! Why oh why didn't Olmsted design golf courses?!