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Quote of the Week

"What, then, is art in golf architecture? What are the values we should seek, and the method we should adopt to arrive at them?

If we examine courses in general, we shall find that wherever the modifications of the ground have been so inwrought as to seem inevitably a part of their surroundings, not only are they liable to manifest beauty, but we can be relatively sure the work promises to endure. Experience has taught us that courses constructed with no higher end than merely to create a playground around which one may strike a ball, present the golfer with little more than a landscape brutalized with the ideas of some other golfer."

Max Behr 1927. Taken from, "The Art of Golf Design", Michael G. Miller and Geoff Shackelford, Sleeping Bear Press, http://sleepingbearpress.com Chelsea, MI 2001.