Wide Open Fairways by Bradley S. Klein

Author:Bradley S. Klein [Klein, Bradley S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781496209849
Published: 2018-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

6. Author test-driving the par-4 third hole at Old Macdonald, Bandon, Oregon, during construction. Courtesy of the author.

No one would mistake Bahto for a buttoned-down country club patrician. He’s rough-hewn, unafraid to jump in and offer his views, and yet tactful enough to deal in a straightforward but informed manner with the board members of very high-toned clubs of Macdonald-Raynor design heritage. He had become a consultant on architectural history for several pretty exclusive places and had even done design and construction work, including some shaping from the seat of a bulldozer. If ever there were evidence that a self-taught love of architecture was all you really needed to secure a niche in the business, Bahto fit the bill.

There was nothing self-tutored about the third member of the consulting team. Karl Olson was a distinguished golf course superintendent. From 1986 to 2003 Olson held that position at Macdonald’s greatest design, National Golf Links of America (NGLA) in Southampton, New York. This was the 1911 design in which Macdonald brought to bear for the New World his interpretation of the great holes and the great design features he found on golf sojourns in Great Britain in the late nineteenth century. National Golf Links immediately became a kind of museum piece of classic design. For generations afterward, architects and students of golf design headed out to Long Island’s South Fork to study this homage to traditional links course design.

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