Alister MacKenzie

So, uh, it was originally laid out as a nine-hole course, and that was in cons- in consultation with old Tom Morris, who obviously everybody will know as, uh, uh, as Golf Bot if you're listening.

Uh, and then also Alister MacKenzie, who's the designer of my home course, Reddish Vale, uh, got involved, and he designed six holes at the golf course.

So there is some really big golfing heritage and pedigree involved at Lindrick.

And I must admit, until I started getting into lists and things like that, I hadn't really heard of Lindrick.

Bobby Jones getting knocked out of the first round of match play at Pebble Beach in the 29 U.S.

Amateur and going to Pasatiempo to see what Alistair McKenzie was cooking up down there with Marion Hollins and really enjoying it.

And then, you know, bringing him down to Georgia.

It's like...

But we're not going to get to, we're going to, it's like, but wait, there's more later.

We're not going to get to the 1926 trip today because first we've kind of got Alistair McKenzie birth until he sets foot on the Toronto to come to Australia.

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So it's fast no matter where you are.

Let's get into this.

Alistair McKenzie, this is your life.

Dr. Alistair McKenzie.

Malone Golf Club was founded in 1895, but it's moved site a couple of times since that, uh, first foundation.

Uh, it was for a while, uh, between 1915 and 1958, on a place called the Harberton Estate on a course which was designed by Dr Alister MacKenzie himself.

However, some of the members didn't really like his course, and apparently there was a bit of a dispute.

It says, according to the club's website, that Dr MacKenzie returned 200 pounds of the 300 pounds he was paid as part of the deal to, uh, to, to walk away from, uh, the dispute over, uh, the design of his course.

He worked hand in hand with him for decades.

Alistair McKenzie's partner, Robert Hunter, once said that he thought that Frank Maples did the best construction work.

going on in America during the golden age of golf course design.

This is it all right there.

Um, you know, he's not really like the Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, per se, but, um, you know, I've really always loved his dedication to the game of golf.

I think that some of the stories around how he built Augusta National, you know, losing in the '29 US Amateur in the first round and then going to Passa Tempo to see what Alister MacKenzie did to eventually, you know, have that turn into, uh, Augusta National, where they host the Masters is, is super cool.

Um, and, you know, always loved his, uh, uh, his sportsmanship, uh, towards the game of golf and, and kind of how he started his career as a hothead and, and ended up kind of ending it as, you know, this very mythical figure in the game that was like the ultimate sportsman, um, who retired on the top after winning the Grand Slam.

So, uh, that's just kind of been it with me.

A lot of these golf course architects had the course that was their baby.

It was the one that they spent their days on Alistair McKenzie out of Paso temple, right in California.

He had the house right there, Donald Ross, Pinehurst number two, right? That type of thing.

You had these golf course architects that uh that had these these places and they said this is where i'm going to put all my energy and this is going to be my magnum opus and emmett had that sort of golf course and so that course and it's going back to brad klein brad klein actually wrote the history of it and um And this fellow had to drag Klein to the golf course, kicking and screaming.

And it was designed by C.B. Macdonald.

Seth Raynor engineered it, and Alister MacKenzie designed the 18th hole.

Like, it was all...

It went from the bay to the ocean, took over all of basically that Lido Beach area of Long Beach, Long Island, which now, like, we have a Barelli's bar basically, like, a mile away from where that location was.

Right.

So it's Lido.

You know, we just opened a, uh, new golf course in, in Aiken called the 21 Club that was a friend of mine bought the lost Alister MacKenzie design that was supposed to go in Argentina in a auction, and he put it right here.

It just is opening like now.

There's little changes here and there, but I think if he came back and had a wander around that he'd clearly recognise it.

And I think he'd do it more so than McKenzie going back to Augusta thinking, well, hang on, this routing's familiar, but all these azaleas and all these white sand bunkers, I'm not sure what's going on here.

I don't think he'd have that sense.

I think he'd feel very familiar and he'd recognise where he was.

And a time where maybe you have to think a little bit, what did Pete Dye say, if I get them thinking I've got them?

Yeah.

Well, and it's like that McKenzie, you know, the McKenzie quote, that a good hole should always look harder than it is or be harder than it looks.

Yeah.

Where are you going to play golf? And of course, Limerick Golf Club is a lovely golf course too.

It's an Alistair McKenzie course, which was founded in 1891 and Alistair McKenzie paid us a visit in 1927 and he designed our back nine.

So that's a lovely course to play as well.

The big problem in Ireland is there's only so many holes on a golf course.