Last winter I began a golf course archiving project that originated while I was trying to create a detailed image of the Yale course from the 1934 Connecticut statewide aerial survey. I was able to create a high-res file from images on the Connecticut state library’s website by stitching together 144 images into a .tif [...]
Posts Tagged ‘A.W. Tillinghast’
CHRIS HUNT’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- SFGC
Having just visited this fine peninsula town and not having played its namesake and finest golfing track, I thought best to revisit my archives from mid-decade and relive post facto some of the pleasure that is San Francisco Golf Club. This would be Tillinghast’s most notable ‘best-coast’ effort of course, with a little love [...]
C.H.’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- BETHPAGE
To my mind, the Black Course at Bethpage will always stand as the protypical ‘head-and-shoulders pattern’ golfing venue, and this particular signal to me here is bearish, both for what is done to the psyche of the duffer and how the shot requirements fail to be as varied as they might (long, straight, high…miss, flop). This example of [...]
BETHPAGE
The New York Times trots out the Burbeck v. Tillinghast debate in anticipation of the U.S. Open at Bethpage. There is also a video with Rees Jones, “the Open Doctor.” So if you can’t wait for your Rees hype, feel free to watch. Ironically considering the arteicle in wich the video is embedded, the host [...]
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