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When A Cup is More than a Cup: The Tacit Story

May 19, 2010 by John Strawn

As the UK hosts  two of golf’s greatest competitions this year:  the recent Open Championship, on the Old Course at St Andrews for the 28th time, and the Ryder Cup for the first time in Wales, questions and commentary abound.  Amid the hoopla and gossip—talk about Tiger’s tumble, speculation about whether Tom Watson could work […]

A Conversation with David McLay Kidd

November 30, 2009 by John Strawn

Second in a Series David McLay Kidd’s first golf course design project, Bandon Dunes on the Oregon coast, was a spectacular success, launching a career that is, judged by the standard biographical trajectory of most prominent golf course architects, still in its adolescence. An unlikely prodigy in a profession whose leading practitioners emphasize the virtue […]

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