Stanley Thompson

And, um, and certainly there's an element of, you know, serendipity for me in my life, but you know, I chose Rod for Links, and I chose him for Revelstoke.

And, you know, I liked the, I liked that he had a landscape in Cape Breton to put his work up against Stanley Thompson's Highlands Links, and I wanted him to have a mountain canvas to put his work up against Banff and Jasper, you know, on the West Coast.

And, you know, that Jeff had been in the car with me, um, 22 years ago, you know, it was a natural choice when I thought of a new Nova Scotia project to do.

So, um, you know, it is a, it's a joy to work with him.

I still live only five minutes from there.

And, uh, it's an old Stanley Thompson golf course, and I caddied there as a kid.

So I mean, I grew up infused with the game for sure, but nothing like Dornoch.

And I don't know why I took to links golf so much, but I just love the democratic nature of it.

And eventually someone said, "Let's build a golf course, and that'll help us import the tourists, uh, to the Banff area." And so as the golf course grew from nine holes to 18, and as CN rival came to Jasper and built a world-class course, CP needed to do the same and, and outdo them.

And, and that really was the impetus back in 1928 when finally our Stanley Thompson course was designed and built.

Most expensive course to be built at the time.

Uh, had to blast away at rocks, and really with a, a budget that you probably wouldn't get today.

Um, but some of that's owed to Stanley Thompson himself.

He was a, a, a person who was very influential.

So, uh, the rumor is he ran out of money a few times, and yet he would bring out the, uh, the people in charge, would show them the vision, they'd reinvest.

Um, so yeah, that's really how it came to be, and it stood the test of time because it's truly in a fantastic place that it was built, and you probably won't be able to build in national parks very much anymore in, in these types of settings.

Tillinghast, Travis.

Stanley Thompson all have really good golf courses in Western New York.

And so I, uh, I reached out to a long time Buffalo based, uh, golf writer, golf photographer.

Uh, he works with the Walter Travis society as well.

Was that your words? I might have said something along those lines.

I've said a lot, most of which I will defend.

RTJ, he worked with Stanley Thompson.

And Stanley Thompson, you know, out of Canada, was good.