Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and his Golf Courses (Melville, N.Y., Duck Pond Press, 2011) 

Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and his Golf Courses (Melville, N.Y., Duck Pond Press, 2011) 

Over a career that lasted from the early 1900s to the late 1940s, no other golf course architect is credited with more fine layouts – or is more revered – than Donald J. Ross. Born the son of a mason in Dornoch Scotland in 1872, Ross became a fine golfer as a young man ad eventually learned greenkeeping and club making from legendary Old Tom Morris in St. Andrews. In 1899, after a stint as professional at Dornoch Golf Club, Ross headed for Boston to teach golf to the thousands of Americans eager to take up the “new” sport. His success as an instructor during summers in New England resulted in a chance to do the same thing during the winter at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. That stroke of luck quickly led to an opportunity for the young Scotsman to design golf courses . . . and it was the beginning of along and illustrious career – a model for many architects to come. Read more and purchase.

More Books from Bradley S. Klein

Scenes from Sebonack (Melville, N.Y.: Duck Pond Press, 2020)

Wide Open Fairways: A Journey Through the Modern Landscapes of Golf (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

St. George’s Golf & Country Club, 1917-2017: Devereux Emmet’s Long Island Legacy (Stony Brook, N.Y.: St. George’s G&CC, 2018)

The Women’s Open at Sebonack (Melville, N.Y.: Duck Pond Press, 2014)

Wide Open Fairways: A Journey Across the Landscapes of Modern Golf
(Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

Building Sebonack: Classic Golf by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak (Melville, N.Y.: Duck Pond Press, 2006, 2009)

Rough Meditations exp., paperback edn. (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishers, 1997, 2006)

Desert Forest Golf Club: The First 40 Years (Carefree, Ariz.: Desert Forest Golf Club, 2004)

A Walk in the Park: Golfweek Presents America’s Best Classic and Modern Golf Courses (Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing LLC, 2004) – editor and principal writer

Strategic Studies and World Order: The Global Politics of Deterrence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)