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The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses and Holes (Hardcover)

by Daniel Wexler (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (15 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1886947600
  • ISBN-13: 978-1886947603
  • Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 25.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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While it’s hard to imagine that famed Pebble Beach Golf Links would ever be dug up and turned into a residential community, similar fates have happened to other great courses in the past. Thankfully, due to the exhaustive research of Daniel Wexler, the full details on 27 of these exceptional layouts can be found in The Missing Links: America’s Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes.

Through the use of period photographs and detailed maps, Wexler takes the reader on a hole–by–hole guided tour of some of the most famous courses—designed by some of America’s most famous architects—that no longer exist. Alister MacKenzie’s Sharp Park GC in California (washed away in a Pacific storm), William Langford’s Key West GC in Florida (destroyed by a hurricane), and Charles Blair Macdonald’s Lido Club (sold to developers during the Depression) are but three of the classic courses that can be “played” once more.



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The legendary golf writer Bernard Darwin once called The Lido Golf Club “the finest course in the world.” Famous teaching pro Claude Harmon went Darwin one better. He told 1965 PGA champion Dave Marr that The Lido was “the greatest golf course ever.”

Ever see it?

In the late 1920s, a man named Carl Fisher spent over $10 million developing a golf resort on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. It was called Montauk Downs and it was expected to be the Miami Beach of the north.

Ever hear of it?

Also in the 1920s, in Illinois, advertising pioneer Albert Lasker spent nearly $4 million to build Mill Road Farm Golf Club on his ultra–private estate outside of Chicago. No less than the immortal Bobby Jones said it was one of the three best layouts in the country.

Ever play it?

These outstanding golf courses, and may others, have two things in common: they were designed by some of the greatest architects in the history of the game; and, sadly for golfers all over America, they no longer exist.

Thanks to the painstaking research and documentation of Daniel Wexler, you now have an exciting opportunity to go back to what many people feel was the sport’s greatest era—the Golden Age of golf design. It’s a unique change to “play” these old courses, “see” what made them so wonderful, find out how they’d stack up today, and discover what caused their unfortunate demise.

If you love golf, and golf history, The Missing Links belongs in your personal library.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Look at the Best Disappearing Links, 14 Jul 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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Summary: The enthusiasm for private golf courses is almost as high now as it was when most were established around a hundred years ago in the United States. During the Depression and in the suburban expansions after World War II, many private golf courses either disappeared or were turned into home lots. Mr. Wexler has done an outstanding job of bringing these courses to life, even though we will never see most of these holes in person. The book features 27 of over 100 lost courses that he has found. Among these are courses that hosted the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open. So much for fame!

Review: If you did not know that these courses have ceased to exist in their original form, you would think that existing courses were being described. The 27 featured courses include a visual layout of the course, scorecard, hole-by-hole descriptions, history of its development, photographs of play and holes, a little about the course designer, and an assessment of how the course would be viewed today.

I was particularly impressed to see that many of these courses disappeared in New York State. Imagine having so many scenic spots changed away from golf today. It would never happen. Or at least I hope it wouldn't. What do you think?

Of the courses, I was shocked to learn that 6 or 7 would be in the top 100 in the U.S. today. Even if that is optimistic, it does seem like a shame to lose any great golf tracks.

As a Donald Ross fan, I was astounded to find out that expanding I-95 in New Jersey had helped doom his course, the Englewood Country Club. Even more remarkable was the loss of Pinehurst number four, so close to his masterpiece of Pinehurst number two.

In addition to enjoying this book, golf club members should think about how to provide for the financial security of the courses where they play. After all, many of these are on land that would sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars an acre. What is to stop conversions of more top courses into building lots in the future during times of economic troubles? Certainly, the many clubs that have invested extra millions in clubhouses and courses recently may have made this more likely.

After you finish enjoying this book, think about what else may have disappeared from your community. See if your local historical society has photographic records to help you see those missing parts of history.

Cherish what is fine . . . even when the costs are high!

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