[Brett_Morrissy]

Inspired by a recent read of Tom Macwood's Opinion piece of George Arthur Crump: Portrait of a Legend, it got me thinking about life before and after some of the great courses were discovered and built.

My question for the historically gifted, and for those less so, is to paint a picture of two periods in golf in both the USA and The British Isles for me/us. Separately please? 

A kind of the beginning of last century ranking, what courses were aficionado's speaking about, writing letters about, what courses were regarded as the pinnacle, I am sure they didn't have the endless lists of top tens, 100's, etc BUT, what courses in those periods would have been regarded as the top ten?
Did the Links courses of the North dominate the Heathland of the south, or were they not really even classified this way? In the US, east coast vs west vs north vs south??

I am very interested to hear what the DG has to say on this, imagine we are all sitting around in our suits and plus fours, hats and cheese cutters, bibs and braces, and pipes of course - no Internet to be seen or heard....

1906 to 1915 - USA/BRITISH ISLES

1916 to 1925 - USA/BRITISH ISLES

[Brett_Morrissy]

Ok, so this thread is not grabbing anyone's interest...

...can anyone point me in the direction of a course opening or architect construction completion time line for either USA or BRITISH ISLES.

[Sven Nilsen]

Brett:

Here's a list of notable U.S. course built prior to 1915, hope it helps:


Oakhurst Golf Course (1884) – Unknown
Dorset Field Club (1886) – Unknown
Sarasota Golf Club (1886) – J. Hamilton Gillespie
Foxburg Country Club (1887) – Joseph Mickel Fox
St. Andrew’s Golf Club (1888) – John Reid; William H. Tucker (1900); Morris Poucher (1920); Jack Nicklaus (1983)
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club (1891) – Willie Davis; Willie Dunn (1894); Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor (1916); Howard C. Toomey, William S. Flynn (1931)
Palmetto Club (1892) – Herbert Leeds; Alister MacKenzie (1931)
Gearhart Golf Links (1892) – Unknown; Chandler Egan (??); Bill Robinson (1999)
Chicago Golf Club (1893) – Charles Blair Macdonald; Seth Raynor (1923)
Newport Country Club (1894) – William Davis; H.H. Barker (1909); Donald Ross (1915); A.W. Tillinghast (1924)
Onwentsia Club (1895) –Charles Blair Macdonald, Henry Foulis, Robert Whigham, Herbert J. Tweedie; Tom Doak (1997)
Van Cortland Park Golf Course (1895) – Tom Bendelow
The Country Club (1895) – Willie Campbell; Howard C. Toomey, William S. Flynn (1931)
Lowell Country Club (Vesper Country Club) (1895) – Unknown; Donald Ross (1914)
Baltusrol Golf Club (1895) – Louis Keller; A.W. Tillinghast (1922)
Philadelphia Cricket Club St. Martins Course (1895) – Sanders Hartford; Willie Tucker (1898)
Myopia Hunt Club (1896) – Willie Campbell; Herbert Leeds (??)
Skokie Country Club (1897) – Herbert J. Tweedie or George Leslie; Tom Bendelow (1904); Donald Ross (1914); William Langford, Theodore Moreau (1938); Ken Killian, Dick Nugent (1973); Rees Jones (1984;  Ron Prichard (??)
Exmoor Country Club (1897) – Robert Whigham; Charles Blair Macdonald (1898); Harry Towner, R.H. McElwee, William Alexander (1901); Donald Ross (1914); Ken Killian, Dick Nugent (1969); Bob Lohmann (1987); Ron Prichard (2004)
Wentworth by the Sea (1897) – George Wright; Donald Ross (1921)
Atlantic City Country Club (1897) – John Reid; Walter Travis (??); Willie Park Jr. (1921); Tom Doak (??)
Midlothian Country Club (1898) – Herbert J. Tweedie; Ken Killian, Richard Nugent (??); Bob Lohmann (2003)
Garden City Golf Club (1899) – Devereux Emmet; Walter Travis (1909)
Maidstone Club (1899) – William H. Tucker; Willie Park Jr. (1925)
Ekwanok Country Club (1899) – Willie Dunn; Walter J. Travis (??); John Duncan Dunn (1927)
Jackson Park Golf Course (1899) – Tom Bendelow
Detroit Golf Club (1899) – Unknown; Donald Ross (1913)
Flossmoor Country Club (1900) – Herbert J. Tweedie; Tweedie, H.W. Gentles, James S. Pearson (1901); Harry Collis (1918); Ray Hearn (2009) - [Course known as Homewood Country Club until 1911]
Glen Echo Country Club (1901) – Jim Foulis
Country Club of Buffalo (Grover Cleveland) (1902) – Unknown; Walter J. Travis (1911)
Inverness Club (1903) – Unknown; Donald Ross (1915); A.W. Tillinghast (??); Dick Wilson (??); George Fazio, Tom Fazio (1978); Arthur Hills (1999)
Inwood Country Club (1903) – Wiliam Exton, Arthur Thatcher; Herbert Strong (1911); Hal Purdy (1959); Francis Duane (1972); Tom Doak (1998)
Oakmont Country Club (1903) – Henry Fownes
Pinehurst Resort No. 2 (1903) – Donald Ross; Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw (2010)
Wykagyl Country Club (1904) – Lawrence Van Etten; Donald Ross (??); A.W. Tillinghast (??); Arthur Hills (1994); Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw (??)
Minkahda Club (1907) – Donald Ross, Willie Watson (1917)
Beverly Country Club (1908) – George O’Neil, George Janes, John A. Middleton; Donald Ross (1918); Bob Lohmann (1985); Ron Prichard (2002)
Seattle Golf Club (1908) – John Bell, Robert Johnstone
Huntington Country Club (1910) – Devereux Emmet
Country Club of Virginia, Westhampton Course (1910) – George O’Neil; Lester George (??)
National Golf Links of America (1911) – Charles Blair Macdonald
Interlachen Country Club (1911) –Willie Watson, Donald Ross (1921)
Columbia Country Club (1911) –Walter J. Travis
Milwaukee Country Club (1911) – Alex Robertson; Walter J. Travis (1924); Charles H. Alison (1929)
Merion Golf Club (East) (1912) – Hugh Wilson, et al.
Royal Colwood (1913) – A. Vernon Macan
Piping Rock (1913) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor
Hollywood Golf Club (1913) – Isaac Mackie, Seth Raynor, Walter J. Travis (1916)
St. Louis Country Club (1914) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor
Sleepy Hollow Country Club (1914) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor
Country Club of Fairfield (1914) – Seth Raynor, A.W. Tillinghast (1925)
Old Elm Club (1914) – Harry S. Colt, Donald Ross
San Francisco Golf Club (1915) – A.W. Tillinghast
East Lake Golf Club (1915) – Donald Ross, George Cobb (1960), Rees Jones (1994)
Greenbrier Old White (1915) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor; Lester George (??)
Olympia Fields Country Club (South) (1915)  - Tom Bendelow

[Sven Nilsen]

Here's the U.S. list for 1916-25:

Wannamoisett Country Club (1916) – Donald Ross
Scioto Country Club (1916) – Donald Ross
White Bear Yacht Club (1916) – Donald Ross
Essex Country Club (1917) – Donald Ross
Mountain Lake Country Club (1917) – Seth Raynor
St. George’s Golf & Country Club (1917) – Devereux Emmet
Oakland Hills Country Club (South) (1918) – Donald Ross, Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1950)
Somerset Hills Country Club (1918) – A. W. Tillinghast
Lido Golf Course (1918) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor
Pine Valley Golf Club (1919) – George Crump, Harry S. Colt
Pebble Beach Golf Links (1919) – Douglas Grant, Jack Neville; Alister MacKenzie, H. Chandler Egan (1929)
Lancaster Country Club (1920) – William S. Flynn; David Gordon, William Gordon (1959)
Camargo Club (1921) – Seth Raynor
Shoreacres (1921) – Seth Raynor
Plainfield Country Club (1921) – Donald Ross
Sankaty Head Golf Club (1921) – H. Emerson Armstrong
Los Angeles Country Club (North) (1921) – Herbert Fowler; William P. Bell, George C. Thomas (1927))
Kirtland Country Club (1921) – Charles H. Alison
Olympia Fields Country Club (North) (1922) – Willie Park Jr.
Kittansett Club (1922) – Fred Hood, William S. Flynn
Canterbury Golf Club (1922) – Herbert Strong
Brookside Country Club (1922) – Donald Ross
Eastward Ho! (1922) – Herbert Fowler
Winged Foot Golf Club (West and East) (1923) – A. W. Tillinghast
Homestead Resort (Cascades) (1923) – William S. Flynn
Cherry Hills Country Club (1923) – William S. Flynn
Charlotte Country Club (1923) – Donald Ross, Ron Prichard (2008)
Country Club of Buffalo (1923) – Donald Ross
Monroe Golf Club (1923) – Donald Ross
Timber Point Club (1923) –Charles H. Alison
Burning Tree Club (1924) – Charles H. Alison
Oak Hill Country Club (East) (1924) – Donald Ross; George Fazio, Tom Fazio (1979) Fenway Golf Club (1924) – A. W. Tillinghast
Yeamans Hall Club (1925) – Seth Raynor
Whippoorwill Country Club (1925) – Donald Ross; Charles Banks (1929)
Fox Chapel Golf Club (1925) – Charles Banks, Seth Raynor
Creek Club (1925) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor

[Alex Lagowitz]

Myopia Hunt hosted a number of US Opens in the early 1900s.
Baltusrol's original course (not- tilly) also was supposedly good.

[Brett_Morrissy]

Sven, that is awesome - thank you.

[John Burnes]

My course was built in 1898, and became 18 holes in 1914.  (Trenton)

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