Posts Tagged: Fishers Island

Definitive List of Courses Designed, Renovated, Built by Seth Raynor, and the Ones Where He Wasn’t Involved

The advertisement that ran in the "Southampton (N.Y.) Press" for more than a decade.

The recent reprinting of “The Evangelist of Golf,” a biography of Charles Blair Macdonald, inexplicably fails to rectify a myriad… Read more »

The Brief, Bright Career of Charles Banks, and the Burning Questions He Left Behind

The headstone of Charles Henry Banks. (Photo by Anthony Pioppi)

By Anthony Pioppi In the annals of golf course architecture, few careers were as brief and memorable as Charles Banks’s, while… Read more »

The Correct Explanation, according to Charles Blair Macdonald, of the Cape Hole

A view of the National Golf Links America Cape Hole tee shot from the August 1910 issue of American Golfer.

Of all the template holes and design concepts in the palette of Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor and Charles Banks,… Read more »