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Langford & Moreau - In Their Own Words

Golf Course Architecture in the Chicago District

In 1915, William Langford wrote a series of articles for the Chicago Evening Post describing his thoughts about golf course architecture. Topics included:

  • The Utilization of Natural Features

  • The Bunkering of Courses

  • The Art of Building Natural Looking Bunkers

  • Economy in Golf Course Design, Construction, and Maintenance

  • The Construction of Artificial Hazards

  • The Length of Holes and of Courses

  • Placing Hazards

These articles were later compiled into a booklet. View a copy here.

“The extreme height of a bunker near a green is something that never worries us. … We have had some bunker faces near a green that were twenty-five feet high … We like to vary the height of our bunker faces from not less than three feet on an average to eight or nine feet around a green.”

Langford & Moreau, Landscape Architecture, July 1928

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