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The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35206873
EAN: 9781886947603
ISBN: 1886947600
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: June 29, 2000
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Review:
Nothing lasts forever. Missing Links is a testament to how ephemeral even great golf courses designed by master architects can be. It's enough to break a hacker's heart.
In this lovely homage to what once was, Daniel Wexler identifies 47 historically significant pre-World War II courses lost largely to the needs of post-World War II development, and then proceeds to tee up their stories. Some of the courses loom as mythically large as Atlantis--Charles Blair Macdonald's Lido Golf Club on Long Island is still considered one of the most innovative designs ever, and A.W. Tillinghast's Fresh Meadow Country Club not only hosted the first PGA Championship, it boasted Gene Sarazen as head pro. Each of the lost gems is presented with a history filled with anecdotes, a complete diagram of the layout, a scorecard, and as many vintage photos as Wexler could fit. Most intriguing, Wexler also projects how each course might measure up today. Lido, insists Wexler, would still have golf traditionalists salivating--it would be, he surmises, "one of America's best... Every bit as good today as the day it was born." Amazingly, Missing Links evocatively extols dozens more nearly as worthy. --Jeff Silverman
While it’s hard to imagine that famed Pebble Beach Golf Links would ever be dug up and turned into a residential community, similar fates have happened to other great courses in the past. Thankfully, due to the exhaustive research of Daniel Wexler, the full details on 27 of these exceptional layouts can be found in The Missing Links: America’s Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes.
Through the use of period photographs and detailed maps, Wexler takes the reader on a hole-by-hole guided tour of some of the most famous courses—designed by some of America’s most famous architects—that no longer exist. Alister MacKenzie’s Sharp Park GC in California (washed away in a Pacific storm), William Langford’s Key West GC in Florida (destroyed by a hurricane), and Charles Blair Macdonald’s Lido Club (sold to developers during the Depression) are but three of the classic courses that can be “played” once more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - quality effort
who knew america lost so many great golf courses until this book came out? the list of architects reads reads like a "who's who" with tillinghast, macdonald, ross, reynor, mackenzie and others losing their works mostly to development and depression. more than 25 in all mostly from new york's long island, chicago and california.
representing the greatest loss was "the lido," a macdonald design on the tip of long island's southside long beach. it was ranked #2 in the world to new jersey's ... Read More
Rating:  - The lost wonders of golf
Not far from where I live is a park. It is hilly, has a small river running along one side, pleanty of dips and humps. Gee, I said to myself, this would make a great golf course. When I looked at an aerial photograph of the park, I could see trees which defined what could have been golf holes. Walking along them, I could see there was once what appeared to be a fairly engaging course there.
This was not one of the courses discussed in Missing Links, but it did make me quite curious about the ... Read More
Rating: - A fascinating and informative tour through time
The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes by golfing enthusiast and history Daniel Wexler wonderfully showcases grand American golf courses that have two things in common: they were designed by some of the most talented architects in the history of the sport, and they no longer exist in the present day. Resurrecting memories of lost golfing paradises with a profusion of maps, black-and-white photographs, picturesque descriptions and trivia, The Missing Links is a fascinating and ... Read More
Rating: - A Fascinating Look at the Best Disappearing Links
Summary: The enthusiasm for private golf courses is almost as high now as it was when most were established around a hundred years ago in the United States. During the Depression and in the suburban expansions after World War II, many private golf courses either disappeared or were turned into home lots. Mr. Wexler has done an outstanding job of bringing these courses to life, even though we will never see most of these holes in person. The book features 27 of over 100 lost courses that he has found. ... Read More
Rating: - Great for the golf nut, mediocre for the average man
This is an incredibly original and detailed work. Golf historians and enthusiasts will appreciate the detail, but the average sports fan might find it too tedious. But if you are a golfer, Wexner spookily evokes lost courses and estimates how the courses would play today. The book is a bit pricey; yet, that won't matter to the right customer. An excellent book within a narrow frame.
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