It’s a very good book. I wish there was something similar (in English) for countries that were part of British commonwealth. While Tom Doak was researching his first Confidential Guide one of his starting points was to investigate areas that had Brit military outposts pre-WW2. His assumption being that bored soldiers would have eventually tried building themselves a course to play on.
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@BamaBearcat ever play Long Shadow outside of Atlanta on the way to Augusta? Opened and gone within 10 years. Maybe Mike Young’s best work. GCA hidden gem by those who knew it.
Qslusser I’m awarding you the W. Nice mix of geography and course design. You kept all of your picks in the fairway and made no glaring unforced errors. Please DM me your address and I’ll try and get your prize in the mail before year end.
Thank You to everyone who participated.
Best Countries For Golf should be out in time for you to listen while you drive over the hills and through the woods to grandmas house.
PS: @MerchCzar would want me to remind you to keep hitting those like and subscribe buttons for the NLU Podcast feed.
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I did not. The name doesn’t ring a bell, but I may have forgotten. I would have been traveling about 200 days a year for work at that time. Still managed to play a decent amount of golf, but almost none of it was in Alabama or Georgia.
I was with Mike at an event a couple weeks ago. He’s doing well.
If the goal was a mix of course design I was always going to lose. I have a brand to stick to.
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I think this made it clear that I’m a sucker for Mac/raynor courses.
My grandparents had a cottage about 10 minutes from it so I played it a ton growing up. It’s actually kind of nuts that 3 of Doak’s first 4 designs (High Pointe, Black Forest and Charlotte Golf Links) all went under. That was just a terrible location for a golf course, let alone two.
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Just finished the recent video, great discourse and has sent me down a rabbit hole of course histories.
One that came to my mind that no longer exists that is @Tron and my old stomping grounds of Metro Atlanta is the Pine Isle and Emerald Pointe duo that was on Lake Lanier Islands. Both were very average course with high potential, and I can’t remember exactly when the new owners of Lanier Islands took over, but decided to funnel all the golf money into Emerald Point (now Legacy on Lanier) and close up Pine Isle.
Pine Isle’s old fairways now serve as the zip line course for the resort, but a couple of courses with great bones.
*** I do think they did the right thing by focusing on one course, Legacy is a fantastic tract****
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Multiple major project deadlines all falling within this week, but decided to sneak away for a long weekend last weekend, so have gone to bed at 2:30a the last two nights only to wake up at 5:30a to help get kids to bed before getting back to work…that’s 42 of the last 48 hours awake and either working/parenting.
At least I am my own shareholder to enjoy all this value I’m generating with some excessive billed time this week, but holy shit it’s not quite lunch on Wednesday and this week has already been too long…
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We can tell you’re tired because this was posted in a thread about golf courses that no longer exist, not the one about complaining about office work.
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How 'bout that? I sure did…
Just finished the episode and it got me inspired to find this book I had seen a couple years back in a bookstore:
There was a Ross course here in Columbus that is NLE. It was a private club founded by a mining magnate and Ross was confirmed onsite. I haven’t finished the book, but the land is now occupied by the Ohio School for the Deaf on one section, and Ohio School for the Blind on the other. The pictures of the course, and the routing look pretty good, and I have been around the property a bit and there are a few good ravines that it works through/around.
There was also another Ross 9-holer that was being expanded before I believe a fire took out the clubhouse. It was named Aladdin, located in Marble Cliff, and was founded by the Shriners. If you’re unfamiliar with the area, it is due south of Scioto and was located on the same ridge.