![]() ![]() This trend is certainly heartening but there are still some gifted architects whose contributions deserve to be better known. ![]() In the past few years biographical tributes and personal treatises of revered architects including Macdonald, Tillinghast, Travis, and Ross have appeared. ![]() The layouts of the Golden Age of golf course architecture and the men that created them have recently been receiving increasing attention. Tim Liddy and Tom Climo, Golf Architecture, 2003 We are against such an approach finding it an undemocratic disservice to non-expert players, and unsatisfactory because it requires no imagination. Taking golf design into the direction of more length is only a disservice to the ideals of strategic design inherited from the founders of golf course architecture. In this era of obscene power, the likes of which the game has never witnessed, why not strive to induce a little fun in the mix and at the same time present a true test of delicacy and accuracy by building short par threes? ![]()
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