Guy Wilshire. The man behind the Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Yes, one of the “charter members” of LA golf club and LA Country Club!

My Book on Griffith Park golf history! Tom Bendelow and George C. Thomas!

Holmby Park Pony Golf Course by Billy Bell and Bill Johnson!

The Women’s Open Amateur, held by the Southern California Golf Association in November of 1899

The first golf competition held under the auspices of the Southern California Golf Association in November 1899 at the Los Angeles Country Club’s Pico & Western eighteen-hole sand-green golf links.

Louis Berrien – Annandale, Del Monte, Beresford, Salt Lake, Wilshire, Fox Hills, Santa Monica!

Ben Hogan on the Golden Trail at 19!

1932 Olympics at Billy Bell’s Sunset Fields Public Golf Course

The Herbert Warren Wind Golf Book Award for 2021

A Matter of Course

Congratulations to Derek Markham for winning the U.S.G.A.’s Herbert Warren Wind Book Award for 2021, for “A Matter of Course: The Life of William Herbert Fowler, 1856-1941, Golf Course Architect”!

My contribution to Fowler’s American Adventures came with much assistance from Philip Truett, who co-published the book with Derek!

https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/articles/2022/01/rice-markham-dobie-honored-2022-usga-awards.html