Posts Tagged: National Golf Links of America

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 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 »

Rare Photographs of a Young Seth Raynor Shed More Light on the Enigmatic Architect

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Mary Cummings is one of the last descendants of the golf course architect Seth Raynor and is in possession of small… Read more »

Who Was First Called a Golf Course Architect?

Common wisdom in the golf design world is that Charles Blair Macdonald was the first golf course architect; he said… Read more »