As a player, Macdonald won the inaugural U.S. Amateur in 1895. He was also a driving force behind the formation of the USGA and served as the Association’s first vice president. But it was in his role ...

Charles Blair Macdonald, the country’s first homegrown golf architect ... course, which opened last June, appears wide open, but the challenge lies in positioning one shot to set up the next ...

Raynor quickly changed his career to be a golf course architect in his own right. Macdonald taught Raynor many of the principles he would continue to use, including the importance of the template ...

Golf architecture from the late 1800s through the Great Depression is a well-traveled road. Between contemporaneous books and articles from the likes of Horace Hutchinson, C.B. Macdonald ...

Of course, that begs the question: do I consider Forse and Nagle better architects than C.B. Macdonald ... but still recognizable to golf design fans as Hell Bunker. C.B. would be proud.

Golf course scholars know that Alister MacKenzie’s big architecture break came when he won a design contest in the British publication Country Life Magazine in 1914. Architect C.B. Macdonald was ...