George Arthur Crump: Portrait of a Legend--Thomas MacWood, March 2005
A wonderfully researched and written story on George Arthur Crump, the founder, architect and father of Pine Valley Golf Club.
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Woody's Den
The writings and research of Thomas MacWood—a golf architecture expert and historian who shared on our journey passed at too young of an age. A big thanks to Ran Morrissett at GolfClubAtlas for his permission to re-publish Woody's work.
The Early Golf Architects: Beyond Old Tom
When I began researching golf architecture of the 19th-Century my mind was hardly open. Just the opposite, I entered with a predisposed and frankly poor opinion of the golf architecture of this period. My view had been formed by the likes of Colt, MacKenzie, and Simpson, who dismissed the era, going as far as to call it the Dark Ages. Because of their harsh treatment I had always thought the nineties were a wasteland, and as a consequence focused my energies on the so-called Golden Age. So, in order to fully understand the Golden Age I had to better understand the earlier period, and so I set out to learn what I could.