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Ron Fream
Around the World in 76 Days

Tom MacWood
The Early Golf Architects: Beyond Old Tom

Chad Mark
Kirtland Country Club Green Expansions

David Moriarty
The Missing Faces of Merion

Tony Muldoon
H.S. Colt of East Hendred

Melvyn Hunter Murrow
The Early Golf Designers: The Real Golden Age

Matt Cohn
The Golf Courses around Lake Merced

Gib Carpenter
A Cry for the Golf Course

Tom MacWood
A Round of Golf Courses: Bernard Darwin - Outward Nine

Tom MacWood
A Round of Golf Courses: Bernard Darwin - Inward Nine

Tom MacWood
A Round of Golf Courses: Bernard Darwin -19th Hole 

Masa Nishijima 
GOLF Magazine's World Top 100 1983-2005

Ian Andrew
Architectural Evolution of Stanley Thompson

Kelly Blake Moran 
A Framework for Considering Changes at Augusta National

Matthew Hunt 
Another Take on a World Top 100 Ranking

Kevin Mendik 
Challenges of Restoring a Classic American Golf Course

Gordon Ratliff
MacKenzie & Woodside CC

Jeff Taylor
Anatomy of a Rebuild

Lou Duran & Jeff Brauer
Ralph Plummer, Golf Course Architect

Bob Beck & Nick Leefe
10th Revision Chronology of Dr. Mackenzie's Presence 1907-1934

Ronald W. Fream
What Signature?

Ross Society
Ross Restoration Guidelines

Ted Sturges
Letter to Golf Digest

Bryan Izatt
Review of Teeth of the Dog, Casa de Campo

Thomas MacWood 
George Arthur Crump: Portrait of a Legend

Matthew Mollica
A Review of Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links

Michael B. Prystowsky
Evolution of the Westchester Country Club Golf Courses

Andrew, Cowan-Dewar, Mingay & Thompson
Canada's Top Golf Courses

Mike Sweeney
Blending Old and New in Renovating a Classic

Tom MacWood
Gliding past Fuji - C.H. Alison in Japan

Richard Mandell
The Best Course No One Will Ever Play

John Vander Borght
The Balloon Ball

Mark Rowlinson
Leadhills and the Joy of Gutta Percha

Gib Papazian
Preservation of Architecture as Art

Mark Rowlinson
A Web Browser's Guide to UK Golf Courses

Mark Chalfant
The Architecture of William B. Langford

Chris Clouser
Southern Hills: Maxwell's Crown Jewel

Mark Rowlinson
Golf Courses of Cheshire

Noel Freeman
Triskaidekaphobia

Tom MacWood
The World's Finest Courses

Jeremy Glenn
The Reverse Old Course

Matt Cohn
Golf In Australia

Chris Clouser
Why Dornick Hills should be Restored

Mike Young
The Architect as Genius

Geoff Shackelford
The Ball Problem by Max Behr

Ben Dewar
Banff: Still one of the World's Greats

Jeff Mingay 
A Great Hole: the 16th at Cape Breton Highlands

Chris Clouser
The Designer from the Great Plains

Geoff Shackelford
A Historian's Dream Article

Tom MacWood
The Bethpage Mystery

Noel Freeman
Deal Me In!

Tom MacWood
Magazine Architecture

Jamie Black
Enhancing the Experience of Golf through Environmental Psychology

Dunlop White III
The Shrinking Fairway

Rich Goodale
The Architectural Evolution of Royal Dornoch

Dunlop White III
Anatomy of a Restoration

Dunlop White III
The Course Rating Mania

Noel Freeman
Playing Golf at Kawana, Japan

Jeremy Glenn
Computer Assisted Golf Course Design

Tom MacWood
Arts and Crafts Golf - Part V

Tom MacWood
Arts and Crafts Golf - Part IV

Tom MacWood
Arts and Crafts Golf - Part III

Tom MacWood
Arts and Crafts Golf - Part II

Tom MacWood
Arts and Crafts Golf - Part I

Geoff Shackelford
The Art of Golf Design

Max H. Behr
Art in Golf Architecture

Michael M. Thomas
A Golfer's Five-Foot Shelf

Gary Sherman
Selling a Tree Program at your Club

Dick Sayer
Old Head of Kinsale

Jeremy Glenn
Banff Springs

Dick Sayer
USGA Standards to be Considered

Dunlop White III
Below the Trees

Dick Sayer
Design 101

Dick Sayer
Pebble Beach vs. Pine Valley 

Anthony Pioppi
Fenwick: An Unknown Gem

John Beaumont
English Reflections on Ganton GC

Thomas Naccarato
In Praise of The Ralph Miller Library

John Beaumont
Golf Architecture: Reflections from England

Gib Papazian
A Lesson from a Lady in Scotland

Tom MacWood
The Dream Decision

John Grant
The Tournament Committee

Tom Paul
A Renaissance Movement in Golf Architecture

George Blunt
Why Royal Sydney will be a great host for the Australian Open

Jeff Mingay
The Evolution of a Classic Golf Course: Essex

   

'In My Opinion' is available for anyone who would like to submit a detailed essay as it relates to golf course architecture.

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Please email me at rmorrissett@cabotlinks.com if you are interested in submitting such an essay.

Cheers,

Ran Morrissett

 

 
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