FEATURE INTERVIEWS

Searching for Donald Ross: Golf in the American Heartland at the Zanesville Country Club Tell us what it was like growing up in Zanesville and what the Zanesville course means to the community. Zanesville is a typical mid-western American small town. One of my earliest [...]

Feature Interview No. 2 with Richard Pennell August, 2024   1. Tell us about your recently published book Grass Routes. From where does the title stem? Grass Routes is a collection of my favourite blog post essays from late 2021 to the close of 2022, [...]

Feature Interview with Wayne Morrison Restoration of The Country Club Pepper Pike, Ohio July, 2023 1. Please provide a brief history of The Country Club in Pepper Pike, Ohio. The Country Club was founded in Glenville, Ohio, near Lake Erie in 1889. More than 130 [...]

Feature Interview No. 3 with Phil Young December, 2021   1. When and where Tillinghast first got into design? I believe that it was at least as early as 1898. In the January 1909 issue of The American Golfer, Tilly wrote, “Some years ago I [...]

Feature Interview with Richard Latham November, 2021 An iconic photo of Woodhall Spa as the sun peeps over the 3rd green. Please note: all photos and captions are provided by Clyde Johnson, who worked on the restoration project for Tom Doak.  Richard Latham [...]

Feature Interview with Matt Krug October, 2021 Wisconsin has some of the finest landforms in the game - and that includes the 1st hole at Eagle Springs. (photo by Patrick Koening) 1. Tell us about the Eagle Springs Golf Resort in Eagle, Wisconsin.  [...]

Feature Interview with Ed Homsey September, 2021 Ed Homsey is a combination Okie/Jayhawk who, after graduating from Baylor University in 1955, headed east for graduate studies at the University of Rochester.  On an earlier trip there, he met his to-be wife, Shirley and they have [...]

Feature Interview with Ed Brockner August, 2021 1. Tell us about the origins of Hendricks Field Golf Course. Who commissioned it? Who built it? When did it open? Etc. Essex County, NJ was the first County in the United States to create its own parks [...]

Feature Interview with Greg Ohlendorf July, 2021 From his beginnings at Shady Lawn Golf Course outside of Chicago, Illinois, Greg Ohlendorf enjoyed the process of getting on and playing other local courses. In the mid-1990s, he joined Idlewild CC, his first experience at club life. [...]

June Feature Interview Roads Less Traveled Three GB&I Regional Tours by Angela Moser, Robin Hiseman and Clyde Johnson Additional insight provided by Jeff Warne and Robin Down As much as any sport, golf offers huge rewards to those willing to explore the roads less [...]

Feature Interview with Connor T. Lewis May, 2021 Connor T. Lewis founded The Society of Golf Historians in 2018 and is the host of the popular TalkinGolf History podcast. Both are non-commercial ventures.  The home office is pretty much what you would expect for [...]

Feature Interview with 오상준 April, 2021 1. Tell us about yourself. How did you get into golf? My father taught me how to play golf, but it was several years later in the States when I got into the game seriously.  After getting a master’s [...]

Feature Interview with Rich LaBar February, 2021 Quaker Ridge, just one of several high profile Tillinghast courses that LaBar has worked on (photo courtesy of Evan Schiller Photography). 1. You are based in Basking Ridge, NJ. How did you get into the golf [...]

Feature Interview with Mike Dutton January, 2021 Where there is a great 9 holer, like Hooper Golf Course in New Hampshire, there is a Dutton! Mike is on the right and his brother Jeff is on the left. 1. How did you become [...]