Collected Works

Philadelphia’s fabulous collection of William Flynn-designed courses includes Manufacturer’s Golf and Country Club, whose unusual name reflects its origins as a 19th century gathering place for Philadelphia’s ambitious businessmen.

Architecture was a powerful theme in our history of Fox Chapel, a gorgeous club in suburban Pittsburgh. The enigmatic, short-lived Seth Raynor designed its eighteen fascinating holes. A soaring Italianate atrium highlights a one-of-a-kind clubhouse.

We think our look at Trinity Forest in Dallas will be the template for a new class of club histories: shorter, punchier, and therefore more entertaining than the standard epic. Architects Coore and Crenshaw provided stories about the challenges of building a golf course on a landfill, while touring pros and caddies offered strategic insights.

No club we know has a more apt name than Oak Hills, a rolling, heavily wooded course in San Antonio. Our narrative focused on the club’s two main points of pride: its immortal architect—A. W. Tillinghast—and its many years of hosting a PGA Tour event.

Boston’s Pine Brook Country Club was less than seven miles from the eponymous Country Club in Brookline. While the first generation of American clubs “were Gentile-only and solidly upper-class,” Pine Brook was a “center of Jewish life.” Pine Brook was “continually called on to prove its value.”