Tony Dear
Writer at Freelance
Englishman in US. @linksmagazine, @coloavidgolfer, @cascadegolfer, others. Member of Wodehouse Society. @southamptonfc @mariners
Articles
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1 week ago |
linksmagazine.com | Tony Dear
While they were almost commonplace in the legal, accounting, consulting, and insurance professions before the turn of the century (the architecture business had its share of examples, too), golf design firms with three principals have been a rarity. A hundred years ago, Harry Colt headed two three-partner companies in England-Colt, MacKenzie, and Alison from 1919-23; and Colt, Alison, and Morrison from 1928 until Colt's death in 1951.
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2 weeks ago |
linksmagazine.com | Tony Dear
Despite creating only a very few courses over here, Harry Colt was likely the most influential and innovative designer the game has knownIt's likely that at some point in the last few years you've read an article asking if Harry Colt was golf's greatest, or at least most influential, course architect. The implication being that, yes, he was.
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3 weeks ago |
linksmagazine.com | Tony Dear
Just south of the Canadian border a few miles from my house in Washington, there's a little-known, $25 course whose first hole is a steeply uphill, 460-yard bruiser with a large pond to the right of the fairway at driving distance and OB all the way down the left. A creek runs across the fairway at 240 yards and the second half of the hole narrows to about 25 yards between the trees before you arrive at a tiny green with a sharp rise at the front.
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1 month ago |
linksmagazine.com | Tony Dear
Before selecting your favored four to go on a Mount Rushmore list of mountain golf courses, you really need to think about what a mountain course is and isn't. How do you define it, what counts, and what doesn't? Google the term "mountain golf course" and you'll find a lot of courses that you, personally, would never consider to be a mountain course.
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1 month ago |
coloradoavidgolfer.com | Tony Dear |Brendan O'Keeffe
New cavity-back wedges from Wilson will tolerate off-center strikesBy Tony DearWhen cavity-back wedges first appeared in 2017 (Cleveland CBX), golfers were a little bemused as perimeter–weighting wasn’t considered necessary for shots of 100 yards or less. The feel a blade or muscle-back wedge gave you for short-game shots was considered more important than forgiveness. Who needed a club to be forgiving when they were so close to the green?
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Before deciding which four go on a Mount Rushmore of mountain courses, you need to define what a mountain course is exactly. https://t.co/I425NVTHPa https://t.co/bkvZnWTJ5B
Still thinking about the Masters (probably will for a while yet). It struck me that before he won, McIlroy was an even better version of Johnny Miller - a supremely talented ball-striking phenomenon who didn't have the record his talent merited. Now McIlroy is all-time top ten.
Mt. Rushmore of seaside courses. https://t.co/4RqrXthR4s https://t.co/RAOg4uSG7R
