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George W. Cobb, ASGCA (July 2, 1914 – January 15, 1986) is a notable and prolific golf course designer who created the Par-3 course at Augusta National Golf Club among more than one hundred courses and renovated many, including his own early work. He strove to create attractive layouts that the average golfer would find enjoyable, not ...
This is a list of golf courses for the design of which American golf course architect A. W. Tillinghast was at least in part responsible. OD denotes courses for which Tillinghast is the original designer; R denotes courses reconstructed by Tillinghast; A denotes courses for which Tillinghast made substantial additions
The courses are smaller and paced through the evening, lasting three to five hours. They follow conventions of menu planning that have been established over many years. Each course of a highly formal dinner (excluding some light courses such as sorbets) is usually paired with a different wine, beer, liqueur, or other spirit.
The course meanders through dunes, meadows, and forest land. [2] Upon its opening, Golf Odyssey, the preeminent newsletter devoted to golf travel, named Bandon Dunes, The Best Place on the Planet for Golf. The fourth course, Old Macdonald (in honor of Charles Blair Macdonald), was designed by a team led by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina. [5]
The Ridgewood Country Club (RCC) is a country club located in Paramus, New Jersey, a suburb northwest of New York City in Bergen County. It was founded in 1890 in neighboring Ho-Ho-Kus, but has been at its current location since 1926. Its facilities were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [1]
The word is derived from the French word cours (run), and came into English in the 14th century. [2] It came to be used perhaps because the food in a banquet serving had to be brought at speed from a remote kitchen – in the 1420 cookbook Du fait de cuisine the word "course" is used interchangeably with the word for serving.
Wykagyl Country Club is a golf course in the Wykagyl section of New Rochelle, New York. [1] Through the years, the club has hosted major professional and amateur tournaments and is considered to be one of the premier "classic courses" in the country. The club is private and application for membership is by invitation only.
The club also laid out an 18-hole course, reopened on May 30, 1911, expanded to 36 holes, and added tennis courts. The original golf course was laid out by Sartori, Tufts, Norman Macbeth, and Charles Orr. The courses were redesigned by Herbert Fowler and George C. Thomas, Jr., and again by Thomas with William P. Bell in 1927–28.