Architect
Charles Blair Macdonald
Charles Blair Macdonald (1855-1939) learned golf as a student in St Andrews, Scotland, and returned to the United States determined to build courses matching the strategic quality of the great British links. He founded Chicago Golf Club, one of America's first 18-hole courses, and later created the National Golf Links of America on Long Island, a course built explicitly to reproduce and reinterpret famous holes from links he admired abroad. Widely regarded as the father of American golf course architecture, Macdonald was also a driving force behind the founding of the USGA and won the first U.S. Amateur championship in 1895. His template approach to holes such as the Redan, Alps, and Biarritz was carried forward by his protégé Seth Raynor and shaped generations of American design that followed.
- Courses on BogeyMap
- 3
- States
- 2
- Avg LooperScore
- 94.5
- Highest rated
- The Greenbrier - Old White TPC
Biography
Charles Blair Macdonald (1855-1939) learned golf as a student in St Andrews, Scotland, and returned to the United States determined to build courses matching the strategic quality of the great British links. He founded Chicago Golf Club, one of America's first 18-hole courses, and later created the National Golf Links of America on Long Island, a course built explicitly to reproduce and reinterpret famous holes from links he admired abroad. Widely regarded as the father of American golf course architecture, Macdonald was also a driving force behind the founding of the USGA and won the first U.S. Amateur championship in 1895. His template approach to holes such as the Redan, Alps, and Biarritz was carried forward by his protégé Seth Raynor and shaped generations of American design that followed.
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