The First Modern Golf Course? (Great Courses 3)

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🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Built (truly "built," not just "laid out") by Willie Park, Jr., in 1900 and 1901, the Old Course at Sunningdale Golf Club was, to that point, the most expensive construction project in golf history. It was also more functional, systematically designed, and artful than golfers of the 1890s would have imagined an inland course could be. It marked a major advance in golf architecture and the beginning of the period we now call "the Golden Age." This third installment of our Great Courses series starts with an extended introduction from Garrett on the state of golf course design in the late 1800s and the turning point that Sunningdale represented. To further explore the course's design and influence, Garrett brings on Adam Lawrence (16:26), the editor of Golf Course Architecture magazine and the author of an upcoming biography of Harry Colt. Garrett and Adam discuss Sunngindale's origins, Colt's important role in refining its design, and much more.

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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
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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course And Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today for the third
0:40.1	installment of our great courses series we're discussing the old course The Old Course at Sunningdale Golf Club, which is about an hour southwest of London, England.
0:50.0	It was
0:55.0	extensively revised by Willie Park Jr and it opened in 1901 after which it was extensively revised by Harry Colt
0:59.0	and according to my guest today,
1:01.0	it might be the most important course in the history of modern golf architecture.
1:07.0	That guest is Adam Lawrence.
1:09.0	Adam is the editor of Golf Course Architecture magazine and the author of an upcoming biography of Harry Colt.
1:15.0	For this episode, I've decided to do a somewhat extended
1:19.9	introduction because I just have some thoughts on Suningdale and its era and this general subject in golf architecture
1:27.3	that I've been wanting to sort through and get out there. So that's coming up along with my interview with Adam Lawrence, but first a quick word from our sponsor for this episode, Club Champion.
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