Reminiscences
Of The Links is a collection
of A.W. Tillinghast essays on Scottish and Early American
golf. Tillie provides precious first hand accounts
of American golf’s early history and linkage to
St. Andrews, Scotland. Tillie’s recollections
include: the colorful personalities of Old Tom Morris
and Andra Kirkaldy; the early American championships,
the tragic fall of Willie Anderson, the founding of
Modern Golf Course Arhitecture; the development of
Pine Valley, Bethpage Black and other great American
courses. Tillie’s essays have been brought to
life with over 300 antique photographs. The foreward
is by Frank Hannigan and introductory remarks are by
Ben Crenshaw and Rees Jones. This book is available
for $34.95 each plus $6.00 shipping and handling per
book. To order by credit card, call (908-781-6121),
fax(908)-326-3320, or mail a check payable to The Tillinghast
Association, 9 Coleridge Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078.
For additional
information, please contact: trebus@optonline.net
Gleanings
From the Wayside A.W. Tillinghast ("Tillie")
designed and constructed golf courses throughout North
America. He did so in a time before interstate highways
and air transportation. From the early teens through
the late nineteen-thirties, Tillie traveled the continent,
primarily by automobile, designing and redesigning
golf courses. In this third volume of essays, Gleanings
From The Wayside, Tillie recollects many of
his travels and humorous tales. He also recalls in
detail his design principals and opinions on modern
golf course architecture. This book is now available
for $39.95 plus 6.00 shipping and handling per book.
To order by credit card, call (908-781-6121), fax(908)-326-3320,
or mail a check payable to The Tillinghast Association,
9 Coleridge Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078.
The story of Baltusrol is more
than a history of a golf club. It is an integral
part of the larger story of the evolution of the
greatest game of all. It begins in 1895 when New
York socialite Louis Keller and three other enthusiastic
gentlemen founded the club. From there, the book
is filled with both historic and modern photographs
to detail the creation of Baltusrol;s golf courses
and the many tournaments the graced its fairways. To
order by credit card, call (908-781-6121), fax (908-326-3320),
or mail a check payable to The Tillinghast Association,
9 Coleridge Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078
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information, please contact: trebus@optonline.net
For
additional information, please contact: trebus@optonline.net
The History of
Sunnehanna Country Club.The
Golf Course
An Ortginal Tillighast gem later worked
on by William Flynn. Design dawings and golf correspondence
are accompanied with 89 years of photographs. The
Club was founded during the industrial
era and traces its history to 1895
The Sunnehanna Amateur is the
nations' first major medal play tournament that
changed national amateur competition. More that
50 years are covered in detail with supporting
photogrpahs of young contestants such as Arnold
Plamer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickleson
and Ben Crenshaw to name a few.The book can be
obtained by calling John Yerger at 814-536-9082
or email: jyergs@atlanticbb.net
For
additional information, please contact: trebus@optonline.net
A.W. Tillinghast:
Creator of Golf Courses The First Biography
of A.W. Tillinghast who was a Promethean figure in
American golf. Designer of world-class courses such
as Winged Foot, Baltusrol and Bethpage Black, “'Tilly” was
also a brilliant essayist and influential advocate
for the game. Available from The Classics of Golf,
www.classicsofgolf.com.
For
additional information, please contact: trebus@optonline.net
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Golf for the People: Bethpage
and the Black: With the 2002 U.S. Open the world of golf
discovered Bethpage State Park and Tilly's masterpiece,
the Black Course. But for those in the metropolitan New
York area it was far more than a hidden gem - it was
and is golf's ultimate test. Yet that is but the beginning
of the story. This book traces the history of the founding
of Bethpage village in the 1680's where it is rumored
that the Prince of Wales demonstrated a delightful pastime
he had learned of himself just 8 years earlier named
golf, to the founder of Bethpage and the colonial governer
of New York on a piece of land that the local Indians
named "Rim of the Woods." Today this is the
13th fairway of the Black Course. It goes on to tell
the story of Robert Moses desire to build a park and
golf courses within and how despite the powerful
men of that era it almost didn't happen. Yet out of the
Great Depression the largest golf course construction
project ever conceived and built at one time arose from
an idea to holding a national championship in just over
three years time. This is the history of Bethpage and
the Black.
Available via www.barnesandnoble.com
in two versions
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information, please contact: trebus@optonline.net
The
Cobble Valley Tales
(available from
the United States Golf Association)
http://www.usga.org
The Mut
(available from the United States Golf Association)
http://www.usga.org
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