Missing Links America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes

The legendary golf writer Bernard Darwin once called The Lido Golf Club "the finest course in the world." Famous teaching pro Claude Harmon went Darwin one better. He told 1965 PGA champion Dave Marr that The Lido was "the greatest golf course ever." Ever see it? In the late 1920s, a man named Carl Fisher spent over $10 million developing a golf resort on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. It was called Montauk Downs and it was expected to be the Miami Beach of the north. Ever hear of it? Also in the 1920s, in Illinois, advertising pioneer Albert Lasker spent nearly $4 million to build Mill Road Farm Golf Club on his ultra-private estate outside of Chicago. No less than the immortal Bobby Jones said it was one of the three best layouts in the country. Ever play it? These outstanding golf courses, and may others, have two things in common: they were designed by some of the greatest architects in the history of the game; and, sadly for golfers all over America, they no longer exist. Thanks to the painstaking research and documentation of Daniel Wexler, you now have an exciting opportunity to go back to what many people feel was the sport's greatest era--the Golden Age of golf design. It's a unique change to "play" these old courses, "see" what made them so wonderful, find out how they'd stack up today, and discover what caused their unfortunate demise. If you love golf, and golf history, T"he Missing Links" belongs in your personal library.Wexler, Daniel is the author of 'Missing Links America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes' with ISBN 9781886947603 and ISBN 1886947600.