Robert Trent Jones Sr.DiedJune 14, 2000 (aged 93) Fort Lauderdale, FloridaNationalityEnglish–AmericanAlma materCornell UniversityOccupationArchitect7 more rows
Old Tom Morris had a large hand in the creation of Royal Dornoch. Morris arrived in 1886 and offered his expertise to the course.
The majority of golf courses are concentrated in the wealthy or temperate eastern and southern provinces, such as Guangdong, Hainan and Yunnan.
Harry Colt designed the layout and the course opened for play in 1909 – he modestly described Swinley Forest as his “least bad course”. One of the many delights of Swinley is the ambience, which is hard to define but ubiquitous.
Dr. Alister MacKenzieEven sports fans from other planets know that Dr. Alister MacKenzie designed Augusta National, in collaboration with Jones.
Although an exact number is not known, Ross designed roughly 400 courses in the United States with more than 40 of those in North Carolina alone. A total of 31 states and four Canadian provinces can boast of Ross creations.
The sport was banned up until the middle of the 1980s by the Chinese Communist Party as being too bourgeois. The first golf course constructed in China opened in 1984. It was the Chung Shan Hot Springs in Zhongshan, based on a design by Arnold Palmer.
While the construction of new golf courses is banned in China, it's one of the few countries in the world where courses are still being built. Ever since the Communist revolution of 1949, the Chinese government has had a complicated relationship with the sport of golf. For years, it was banned and viewed as elitist.
Only two Chinese golfers, Marty Dou Zecheng and Zhang Xinjun, have earned a PGA Tour card.
Harry ColtThe course at Swinley Forest is an excellent example of heathland golf. The course architect, Harry Colt, described Swinley in his humble manner as “his least bad course.” This is a particularly impressive statement considering Colt's extensive list of great designs, a number of which sit in the top 100 in the world.
Pebble Beach Golf Links is located along 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, Calif. The town is located along the coast of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County.
Willie Park Jr.Sunningdale Golf Club was founded in 1900 and has two eighteen hole golf courses: the Old Course, designed by Willie Park Jr., and the New Course, designed by Harry Colt, which opened in 1923....Sunningdale Golf Club.Club informationDesigned byWillie Park Jr. (opened 1901)Par70Length6,627 yards (6,060 m)Course rating7218 more rows
The German Blitzkrieg referred to. a. an elaborate series of concrete bunkers built on the experiences of World War II. b. the Nazi plan for a "final solution" to the "Jewish question.". c. the living space in the east that was necessary for an expanding Germany.
a. failed, and Hitler was not able to conquer Britain.
The "Alps" type of golf hole was designed by C.B. Macdonald on what golf course?
At Oakmont Country Club the bunkers were originally raked to make grooves into the sand because with the soil present they were not very deep. What has been done recently to make the bunkers more difficult?
The Allies drove Germans back to the starting point. Battle of the Bulge. FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War.
Americans sank and damaged Japanese carriers and aircrafts. Battle of the Coral Sea. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers.
Arbeit Macht Frei! a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic. Free French.
Importance of this attack was that it gave Britain a reason to launch a new type of attack on Germany where they would use area bombings to target whole cities instead of using precision bombings.
Winston Churchill's speech at the Battle of Britain. He meant that the whole population (so many) owed so much to so few (the pilots) who saved England from Hitler. Never have so many owed so much to so few! German's air force. Luftwaffe. codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route.
Battle of Britain [the "Blitz"] The speech was said by Winston Churchill, when he first became the prime minister at the beginning of WW2, to cheer people and give hope to them. This was their finest hour! British city that was bombed as part of the German air war.
Mary (Molly) Perceval Gourlay OBE was born on the 14 May 1898 in Winslade, Hampshire. She was the eldest daughter of Henry Gourlay and Mary Henrietta Gourlay. Her mother, born Mary Henrietta Perceval, came from New Zealand. She already had two children by her first husband, Rev. Gilbert Vyvyan Heathcote.
At the start of World War II (1939-1945) Molly Gourlay joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service . She became a Lieutenant Colonel in 1943. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for outstanding leadership.
In 1947 Molly Gourlay became president of Surrey Ladies County Golf Association (SLCGA), succeeding Eleanor Helme. She held this position until 1964. She became chairman of the English Ladies' Golf Association (ELGA) in 1954. She was chairman of the Ladies' Golf Union from 1957 to 1960. She was president of ELGA from 1963 to 1965.
Wilson designed or renovated at least sixty courses during his career, several of which are still highly regarded. Some of Wilson's best courses, many of the later ones built in partnership with Joe Lee, included:
He was known for his renovation of the Seminole golf course in North Palm Beach updating Ross 's scratchy bunkers and giving them a more modern curvelinear form and for his course design for the Hole In The Wall Golf Club in Naples, Florida. In 1960 Wilson did some work for the Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia.
After the war Wilson became a golf course designer in his own right. Business was slow at first, but by 1952 it had picked up sufficiently for Wilson to take on an associate, Lee, a 30-year-old graduate of the University of Miami. Wilson's style included broad fairways and large greens. He gave his bunkers a curvelinear form. In the flat country of Florida he developed a style in which putting surfaces were slightly raised, making them more visible and also helping with drainage. The axis of the green would be set at a 30% – 45% diagonal to the fairway, with a large bunker guarding the approach. Wilson's courses typically included various artificial lakes, largely to provide fill for the elevated tees and greens, but also for the sake of adding challenge. His designs reflected the emerging concept that the putting surfaces should be reached by aerial approaches.
The West Palm Beach Golf Course (1947) is an early example of Wilson's work, a championship course with rolling terrain and elevated greens. In 1954 the Deepdale Golf Club bought the W.R. Grace estate on Long Island and had a new course designed by Wilson. By 1959, when he designed the course for the Cypress Lake Country Club, ...
Using adjoining land, Wilson designed a set of replacement holes that have now completely blended in with the original. Wilson and Joe Lee designed the 18-hole course for the private Lagunita Country Club in El Hatillo Municipality, Venezuela, a relatively prosperous part of Caracas.
During the depression Wilson got a job managing Delray Beach Golf Club. He was a course superintendent for a while, then during World War II (1939–1945) he worked on airfield camouflage.