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The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes (Daniel Wexler) Description The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes by Daniel Wexler [Hardcover] DESCRIPTION: While it’s hard to imagine that famed Pebble Beach Golf Links would ever be dug up and turned into a residential community, similar fates have happened to other great courses in the past. Thankfully, due to the exhaustive research of Daniel Wexler, the full details on 27 of these exceptional layouts can be found in The Missing Links: America’s Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes. Through the use of period photographs and detailed maps, Wexler takes the reader on a hole-by-hole guided tour of some of the most famous courses—designed by some of America’s most famous architects—that no longer exist. Alister MacKenzie’s Sharp Park GC in California (washed away in a Pacific storm), William Langford’s Key West GC in Florida (destroyed by a hurricane), and Charles Blair Macdonald’s Lido Club (sold to developers during the Depression) are but three of the classic courses that can be “played” once more.   From the Inside Flap 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, The Missing Links belongs in your personal library.     Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Wiley; 11 edition (June 29, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 1886947600 ISBN-13: 978-1886947603 Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.1 x 0.9 inches   Condition: Excellent   RETURN POLICY:  I've done my best to describe items as accurately as possible.  If by chance I missed something, please understand it wasn't intentional.  In the rare event this may occur, please let me know.  Please contact me before leaving feedback.  I am more than happy to accept a return if the tie arrives - and is for some reason not "as described".   I would prefer a return and refund than have a buyer purchase an item they're dissapointed in.    Shipping: Buyer pays fixed $7.99 for shipping, handling and insurance in US. Please contact me for International shipping costs which may vary based on destination. Shipping can be combined with other items. Take a look at my other items from Hermes, Ferragamo, Thomas Pink, Canali, Brioni, Armani, Dior, Zegna and Faconnable: View My Other Items For Sale     PAYMENT: PayPal.   Thank you for stopping by and please let me know if you have any questions.