Generally speaking writers interviewing colleagues they're friends with devolves into a transcript of dismal frat-boy banter. I'm glad to say this chat with Sampson mostly proved illuminating.
Whaling on Casey Martin again. See, I am plenty man enough to pick on handicapped people. With such cruel and brilliant contrarian reasoning, honestly I should of been the Christopher Hitchens of golf writing.
Even back in 2000, it was clear something unusual was going on in the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. organization. Some big-name golf course architects who are simply CEO figureheads providing supervisory input and remarks at the course opening about "finding the course in the landscape" are loath to admit that their lieutenants do all the work; eccentric as he is, RTJ2 was frank about his role as hands-off visionary. It's a credit to Bruce Charlton and the RTJ2 organization that they function as uniquely creatively as they do.
Q-and-A with Curt Sampson
Generally speaking writers interviewing colleagues they're friends with devolves into a transcript of dismal frat-boy banter. I'm glad to say this chat with Sampson mostly proved illuminating.
Casey Martin: A Case Full of Variables
Whaling on Casey Martin again. See, I am plenty man enough to pick on handicapped people. With such cruel and brilliant contrarian reasoning, honestly I should of been the Christopher Hitchens of golf writing.
RTJ2 in clover: an interview with Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
Even back in 2000, it was clear something unusual was going on in the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. organization. Some big-name golf course architects who are simply CEO figureheads providing supervisory input and remarks at the course opening about "finding the course in the landscape" are loath to admit that their lieutenants do all the work; eccentric as he is, RTJ2 was frank about his role as hands-off visionary. It's a credit to Bruce Charlton and the RTJ2 organization that they function as uniquely creatively as they do.
An American in Scotland
Interview with golf developer Mark Parsinen, from Golf Digest
Boomer and Carton on the golf course
The WFAN morning drive make an odd couple -- off the course, and on it
Up Close: Gil Hanse's Moment
An interview with the most intriguing golf architect of the moment.
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