The Golden Age Of Golf Design

In Geoff Shackelford's "The Golden Age of Golf Design," take and incredible photographic journey back in time and witness the mastery of golf's greatest architects. This remarkable book contains and astonishing collection of vintage photographs that will provide you with an intimate, and in nearly all cases, never-seen look at the most famous courses from the 1920s and '30s. Eccentric bunkering, bold strategy and extraordinary sites were just part of the early designs. And for the first time all of the legendary architects and their distinct styles have been brought together in one illustrative and captivating volume.

The years between 1910 and 1937 will always be known as the "golden age of golf design." The reason is because many of the greatest course architects in the history of the game were all at work during this era, and a number of America's most famous layouts were created. Geoff Shackelford's "The Golden Age of Golf Design"is an insightful analysis of those revered courses and the talented men that designed them. The list of architects working during the Golden Age is a "Who's Who" of golf -- including Ross, MacKenzie, Tillinghast, Crump, Raynor and Wilson. Incredibly, the layouts they built back then -- often with only bare hands and horses to do the work -- annually make up the majority of today's Top 100 Courses in America.