Gleanings from the Wayside : My Recollections As a Golf Architect

by Tillinghast, Albert Warren; Wolffr, Richard C., Jr.; Wolffe, Richard C.; Trebus, Robert S.; Wolffe, Stuart F.

• ISBN13: 9780965181822
• ISBN10: 0965181820
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Treewolf Productions

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(4)
Foreword	7	(2)
Geoffrey S. Cornish
Recollections of a Golf Architect	9	(10)
Modern Golf Chats	19	(2)
Building Golf Courses in the South	21	(3)
The Catapulters of San Antonio	24	(3)
And They Built a Course by the Trinity River	27	(2)
Out Tulsa Way	29	(2)
The Necessity for a Tale of Woe Committee	31	(2)
Spring Lake	33	(1)
California Courses	34	(3)
Rough Going	37	(6)
Our Green Committee Page	43	(13)
A Hole is just as Long as it Plays	56	(2)
Boundary Holes	58	(2)
Dense Shrubbery	60	(2)
An Unusual Double Dog-Leg	62	(2)
A Short Pitched Shot	64	(2)
The Boomerang Hole---A Ground Saver	66	(2)
A Wasted Hazard	68	(2)
The Open at Winged Foot	70	(6)
A Nine-Hole Course on 20 or 30 Acres	76	(2)
Making the Most of the Tee	78	(2)
Teeing Grounds for Two-Shotters	80	(2)
Sans Sand Pits	82	(2)
A Double Green	84	(2)
Miniature Golf Courses	86	(5)
Popular Types of Golf Holes	91	(2)
An Exception to Rule	93	(2)
Blind Holes	95	(2)
Down to Old Mexico for Golf	97	(4)
Winter Greens	101	(1)
Snake Holes and Golf Holes	102	(3)
The Five Farms Course	105	(5)
Out of the Adirondacks	110	(2)
Way Down and Way Out	112	(4)
What the P.G.A. Course Service Really Means	116	(2)
The Masterpiece of Donald Ross	118	(2)
Gleanings from the Wayside	120	(2)
From the Gulf to Puget Sound	122	(5)
Things I am Observing	127	(3)
Intimate Survey of Oakland Hills	130	(3)
When Traps are Friendly	133	(2)
Texas Getting Bent-Minded	135	(3)
The Ugly Duckling of the Course	138	(2)
Now What About Trees?	140	(2)
Old Ananias Par	142	(2)
The Gimme Guys	144	(2)
The Long One-Shotter	146	(2)
The Tiny Tims of Golf	148	(2)
More Concerning Mr. Par	150	(2)
Afterword---Following Tillie's Tracks	152	(8)
Bibliography and Photo Credits	160