Bobby Jones Golf Club Reviews

2, though golf architecture writer Ron Whitten argued in Golf Digest in 2005 that the effect had become exaggerated compared to Ross's intention because green keeping practices at Pinehurst had raised the centre of the greens.

Ross served an apprenticeship with Old Tom Morris in St Andrews before investing his life savings in a trip to the U.S. in 1899 at the suggestion of a Harvard professor named Robert Wilson, who found him his first job in the America at Oakley Country Club in Watertown, Massachusetts.

In 1900 he was appointed as the golf professional at the Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, where he began his course design career and eventually designed four courses.

Ross was a founding member and first president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, which was formed at Pinehurst in 1947.

Evidence supporting this argument includes the fact that a much higher percentage of Ross's courses have been altered, redesigned, or de-stroyed than Mackenzie and Tillinghast's.