National Golf Links of America: C.B. Macdonald's Big Swing (Great Courses 2)

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In the second installment of our Great Courses series, we dive deep into the story of National Golf Links of America, C.B. Macdonald's masterpiece on Long Island. Garrett speaks with Chris Millard, the co-author of a 2016 history of NGLA, about Macdonald's background and personality, how he developed his idiosyncratic design philosophy in the first decade of the 20th century, his hugely important partnership with Seth Raynor, and the monumental effort he put into funding, building, grassing, and promoting National Golf Links.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
0:06.8	fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie
0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison. I'm back from Vocal Rest,
0:40.0	feeling pretty good, so shout out Penicillin and shout out to Andy for doing the
0:45.8	intro to the last episode. Today's episode is the second installment of our
0:51.0	great courses series but if you're starting here, that's fine.
0:55.0	You don't have to listen to these in any particular order.
0:59.0	They're basically deep dives into some of the best and most influential golf courses in history.
1:06.7	The first one was on the old course at St Andrews, and this second episode will be all about National Golf Links of America.
1:15.2	This course was designed by Charles Blair McDonald during the first decade of the 20th century
1:21.5	and it opened in 1911. Many would consider it the first truly
1:27.0	great American golf course. There are a couple of other options for that title
1:32.2	but this is really where American Gulf
1:34.8	architecture came into its own and it was a site of some incredible innovations
1:41.0	in both design and agronomy. My guest for this episode is Chris
1:45.9	Millard. Chris is the co-author along with Anthony Edgeworth of a history of
1:51.3	NGLA that was published in 2016.
1:55.0	Chris has been a friend of Friday Golf behind the scenes for a few years now
2:00.0	and I'm very excited to have him on the podcast for the first time today.
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2:10.0	Club TFE offers a number of benefits like early access to Friday golf events and an annual member gift,
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