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‘THE GAME OF GOLF’
In his book, ‘The Game of Golf’, published in
1895, Park talked in detail about his theories of
design. “Holes which formerly required three
strokes to reach the green can now be driven
in two and hence larger greens are a matter
of practical necessity unless scoring is to be
reduced to an absurd minimum,” he wrote. “If it
can be avoided, putting greens should not be laid
down on a plain uninteresting piece of ground.
There should be a suggestion of a terminus of
the hole, or in other words the position should be
suggestive to the player that there is the place
to which he must aim to drive his ball.”
Park’s great-nephew Mungo, himself a buildings
architect specializing in golf clubhouses, and a
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tireless researcher into the past of his illustrious
family, believes Willie first travelled to the US
in 1895, and he certainly opened a New York
branch of William Park & Sons, the family
clubmaking business, in 1897. But it was almost
twenty years before he was to make his greatest
impact in America.