A wonderfully researched and written story on George Arthur Crump, the founder, architect and father of Pine Valley Golf Club.

The following article was written by Tom MacWood outlining Bobby Jones' dream decision to create Augusta National Golf club. As he wrote, on July 14, 1931, at the Bon Air Vanderbilt in Augusta, Bob Jones addressed a group of reporters. Nine months removed from his historic Grand Slam; he announced the formation of the Augusta National Golf Club. He was bringing his ideal course to the South.

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.