Hi, this is Paul Dundas. In addition to being a golf-smarter listener since the beginning,

I'm from Vosanar in the Netherlands, and I play at the Fossanarsa Golf Club Rosenstein.

This is Golf Smarter number 491 published on June 2, 2015.

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It is much more in the east, and if you think about it, that's the way the golf moved across

the United States. I mean, it started in the east and moved west. And so these nine whole courses,

a lot of them were built in the early days of golf, and then late 1890s into the early 1900s.

Then they were updated by better architects along the way.

Some were expanded into 18 holes like Myopia, some like Whitensville, which was built in

1916, state is that.

The ones up and down the main coast, state is nine hole golf courses.

But I think as golf moves west, 18 holes become standard.

And the reason you see nine in the Midwest states, it's population reason for it.

They have enough people to play and the budget to upkeep.

So by the time it gets to California, golf is real and golf is 18 holes.

And so you see very few.

You see Glen Eagles in Southern San Francisco, and then you see Northwood,

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