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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about the accomplishments of Walter Travis and how he became so successful throughout the golf community.   When Walter Travis arrived in the United States in 1885 from his native Australia, he had never touched a golf club in […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about Geoffrey Cornish and his successes in his golf career.   A quick scan of Vermont’s course list brings into focus exactly what Geoffrey Cornish has meant to golf in the Green Mountains. From his first design at Manchester […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about Hall of Famer Joe Kirkwood and his accomplishments within the golf community.   Joe Kirkwood was born April 3, 1897, in Sydney Australia. At the age of 10, he departed for points uncharted without a compass, roosting at […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about George Low Sr. and his career within the golf community.   George Low exerted a major influence on Vermont golf in its seminal days. Low was born in Carnoustie, Sotland in 1874, where he pursued a training and […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about the success and career of Bobby Locke as a golfer.    Arthur D’Arcy Locke was born in Transvaal, South Africa in 1917, and went on to become one of the greatest golfers in history, winning the British Open […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about George Sargent and his accomplishments throughout the golf community. It specifically dives into his success as a professional.    When George Sargent won the U.S. Open at the Englewood (New Jersey) Golf Club on June 25, 1909, one […]

Source: VT Golf Magazine | Issue: Summer 1998 | Author: Bob Labbance Synopsis: This article is about Doctor Bob Rotella. It delves into how he came to be the person he is today as well as his accomplishments.  Doctor Bob Rotella is one of the foremost performance consultants in the world, counseling Nick Price, Tom […]