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By the turn of the century, golf took off in the U.S. and in the early years of the 20th century Long Island was at the center of this renaissance. The greatest golf course architects in the world designed courses on Long Island. Courses that set the standard for years to come. Shinnecock Hills and the National Golf Links in Southampton were considered the very best of the earliest courses.
Long Island had lots of prime real estate, a good climate and an affluent market that was hungry for golf courses. The architects - With names that seem right out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Willie Dunn, Devereux Emmett, |
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A.W. Tillinghast, and Charles Blair Macdonald are some of the world class designers of this era. Today Rees Jones and Robert Trent Jones Jr. continues. Much attention is always given to the players, but in the beginning and the end, the architect is also responsible for all the triumphs and tragedies.
In researching the information on this publication, with all the thought provoking stories and pictures that were available, We're once again amazed at Long Island's pioneering and vast history. It truly was not only enlightening but made us proud to call
Long Island our home.
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