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What’s a Design Nerd to Think, “When Nines Don’t Match”?

Hal Phillips — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:44:14 +0000

[Ed. This piece appeared 25 years ago in a magazine called TravelGolf Maine founded by a fellow named Park Morrison. It didn’t last long (1998-2001) and, sadly, Park passed away last year, in 2023. I’m including the story here because surely it never made it online — and because it appeared, in print, under a […]

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Return of the Missing Links: Ponky Revised and Revisited

Hal Phillips — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:51:03 +0000

[Ed. This feature was published by McKellar magazine in the spring of 2019, under the headline, “Return of the Missing Links.” Apropos of its motto — “a golf companion” — McKellar exists entirely as an analog/print entity. It maintains no online incarnation. Accordingly, please see below at PDF version of the story, to read here […]

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Dugmar GC: The Curious Story of a Golf Course Submerged

Hal Phillips — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:03:14 +0000

[Ed. This story appeared in March/April 2003 issue Golf Journal magazine.] The Swift River started rising in the rural Massachusetts town of Greenwich on Aug. 14, 1939, and soon enough the fairways at Dugmar Golf Club had become unseasonably soggy. After a time the layout’s bunkers and teeing grounds were completely submerged, and had the […]

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