{"id":2245,"date":"2019-02-09T21:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:15:26","slug":"the-mystery-of-faux-seth-raynor-photo-unravelled-by-crack-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/personalities\/2245\/the-mystery-of-faux-seth-raynor-photo-unravelled-by-crack-researcher","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Faux-Seth Raynor Photo Unravelled By Crack Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past few years there has been an ongoing debate\/discussion about the photo you see on the right. Many people have stated that it is Seth Jagger Raynor. It’s not, and those of us who have \"getImage.gif\"<\/a>studied photos of Raynor and this one knew that.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the work of Raynor-Macdonald-Banks researcher Nigel Islam, the truth has been discovered, or perhaps, rediscovered.<\/p>\n

Speculation by some, me included, thought it might be architect William Langford but a recent comparison of Langford photos, including ones from his time at Yale University, debunked that theor<\/p>\n

Okay then, who is it?<\/p>\n

The answer is Charles F. Frazier<\/p>\n

The proper response is: who?<\/p>\n

So where did Islam find the answer to this nagging\u00a0question? How about on the history page of the Mid-Pacific Country Club<\/a>, which, ironically, is most likely the last course Raynor ever designed. In all likelihood, many Raynor fans have been to that page, seen the Frazier photo and let it slip from our\u00a0memories.<\/p>\n

According to the club website, “Charles R. Frazier, together with a group of sixty-four prominent Honolulu businessmen, organized a country club and golf course as one of the amenities promised in the brochure for his Lanikai development.”<\/p>\n

Frazier went on to be the club’s first president.<\/p>\n

In 1925, Raynor was in Hawaii to layout a course for the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, now the Waialae Country Club <\/a>host of the PGA Tour’s Sony Open<\/a>. The group from Mid-Pacific that would have heard of Raynor’s work and approached him about designing a course for them, which he did.<\/p>\n

Raynor, and his wife, left Hawaii in late 1925. He died Jan. 23 while in Florida for the opening of Paris Singer’s private course, not the Everglades club as commonly thought.<\/p>\n

Waialae opened in 1927. In 1928 the first nines holes at Mid-Pacific were completed. \u00a0The back nine was completed in 1949 under the guidance of architect\u00a0Willard G. Wilkinson who, according to the website, closely followed Raynor’s plans.<\/p>\n

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