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“ TWO OF GOLF’S GREATEST ARCHITECTS 10
Collis was clearly a successful man and architect, but it was in the early 1930s that Meadowbrook had its next encounter with golf architecture greatness when Donald Ross, another expatriate Briton, stopped by to remodel two holes. Ross, born in Dornoch but trained in clubmaking and greenkeeping in St Andrews under Old Tom Morris, became Scotland’s most successful So the Meadowbrook course basically remained for over thirty years, until Toledobased architect Arthur Hills created a master plan in 1972 that saw holes 14-16 rebuilt. In the forty-odd years since, Jerry Matthews created several plans, and consulted on several minor changes, but no greens were rebuilt under his stewardship. golfing export to the US, emigrating in 1899, settling first in Massachusetts and finally in Pinehurst, from where he ran a huge design business, claiming responsibility for over 400 courses before his death in 1948. At Meadowbrook in 1933, Ross changed the very long twelfth hole and also rebuilt the twelfth and eighteenth greens. It is probably not coincidental that this visit took place at the height of the Depression, when we can presume Which brings us neatly to 2016, and the major redesign by Andy Staples which this booklet exists to celebrate! that other golf course work was hard to come by – it seems unlikely that the great architect would have felt such a commission worth his while when business was booming in the 1920s. 11
Page 1 and 2: MEADOWBROOK COUNTRY CLUB ESTABLISHE
Page 3 and 4: WE HONOR OUR HISTORY There may not
Page 5 and 6: out and improving the existing turf
Page 7 and 8: The six hole course that Park laid
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Page 13 and 14: 1955 PGA Championship The Invitatio
Page 15 and 16: “ THE BIG STORY OF THE TOURNAMENT
Page 17 and 18: He is quite a sight, and has inspir
Page 19 and 20: “ A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE In the
Page 21 and 22: In addition, a key goal of the proj
Page 23 and 24: members, people like Shirley Spork,

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