Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1996 | Author: Bill Noble Synopsis: This article is about the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and how it’s uniqueness compared to other Vermont clubs. Around 4 O’clock on an early fall afternoon when the football crowd at Middlebury College’s Youngman Field is dispersing, you can stand in […]
From Distinction to Extinction
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1996 | Author: Arthur Ristau Synopsis: This article is about the Country Club of Barre and how it created the extinction of other surrounding clubs. The insidious alders have overwhelmed the once lush greensward. They have devoured the remnants of the long-stilled brook, and they clutch at […]
Artist in Residence
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1996 | Author: Mary Ann DeSpirito Synopsis: This article is about Joe Kirkwood and his accomplishments and successes throughout his golf career. Joe Kirkwood hated being called a “trick-shot artist.” He would say, “I don’t perform trick shots, I control the golf ball. There’s nothing gimmicky about […]
Hidden Gem
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1997 | Author: Arthur Ristau Synopsis: This article is about the Country Club of Barre and the arguably “Hidden Gem” of the sixteenth tee. It is arguably Vermont’s most gorgeous golf hole. Stretching northerly from the course’s highest promontory Barre’s fourteenth presents a voluptuous Vermont terrain of […]
Our Collective Past
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1997 | Author: Evelyn Earl Synopsis: This article is about the value behind collecting golf antiques and the value golf history holds throughout understanding the cultural aspects in Vermont. The collecting of Vermont Golfiana is a rewarding hobby for those frivolous enough to engage in it, and […]
The Storm
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1997 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article discusses the stories behind the formation of clubhouses across Vermont. It includes some of the challenges and ongoings that accompanies building them. ‘Whether we turn to the temples of Greece, to the aqueducts of baths of Rome, to the […]
Seeing Walter Travis
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1997 | Author: David Cornwell Synopsis: This source is about the story of Charlie getting a “golf lesson” from Walter Travis at Ekwanok Club. Charlie was practicing late and half heatedly as he waited for his parents to return for supper. The late summer sun had set […]
Monumental Change
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1997 | Author: Patrick White Synopsis: This article is about how the Mt. Anthony Country Club of Bennington came to be the club we see today. The sloping, hillside setting of Mt. Anthony Country Club is ironic, symbolic, and most of all appropriate. The land stretches between […]
Royal Cortissoz
Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1997 | Author: Bill Noble Synopsis: This article is about the Spanish decent journalist Royal Cortissoz and how he captured golf through literacy. “Art is long and time is fleeting,” wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more than a century ago. Chances are he wasn’t speaking of golf nor […]
Architect’s Avenue: Name Game
Everyone carries burdens in life and living up to the expectations of your namesake can be one of the toughest. Just ask Jack Nicklaus 2. “I was kind of like Don Quixote chasing that impossible dream,” chuckles the 36-year-old when talking about his playing career. “I never really did anything professionally. I played some in […]