"In the 1960s, after studying geology and majoring in history and American studies at Yale University – where he played varsity golf – and attending a year of law school at Stanford University, Jones joined his father, Robert Trent Jones, in the family business of golf course design. One of his earliest projects was Spyglass Hill Golf Club in Pebble Beach, California."

Tags: ASGCA, California, Donald Ross, Robert Trent Jones Jr

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"Originally designed by Donald Ross and established in 1923, Rackham is an 18-hole course located in Huntington Woods adjacent to the Detroit Zoo. Rackham is recognized as one of Ross’s 10 best public courses and plays to a par of 71 and measures 6,555 from the tips."

Tags: Donald Ross, Michigan, Troon

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"The founding members of Oakland Hills hired Ross, a renowned golf course architect who also designed Detroit Golf Club (now home of the PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic), in 1917 to build the South Course. According to the club’s archives, Ross said, “The Lord intended this for a golf course” when he first saw the property."

Tags: Donald Ross, Gil Hanse, Jim Wagner, Michigan, Private Golf, USGA

"The course is classic Ross, a links style using the shores of Elk Lake – which can be seen from every single hole except No. 8 – as the main core. The course opens with and closes with par 5s. With yardages ranging from 2465 to 3067 yards, most golfers will not need driver. Accuracy is more important on the open yet heather-lined fairways."

Tags: Centennial, Donald Ross, Michigan, Private Golf 

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"After over a year of planning, and with numerous individuals working diligently to make it a memory maker event, Mother Nature blessed the event with sunshine, vibrant blue waters on Elk Lake, a walkway to welcome our guests with vintage wooden boats, cars and trucks as they made their way to the tent for a incredible evening!"

Tags: Centennial, Donald Ross, Michigan, Private Golf

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"Metacomet Country Club is dead, never to return. MetLinks will never be able to replicate it, but it does a great job encapsulating what the course was and keeps its spirit very much alive."

Tags: Donald Ross, Private Golf, Public Golf, Rhode Island

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"Mandell said the opportunity to 'truly and authentically restore what Ross drew up' nearly a century ago was certainly one of the more memorable aspects of his latest golf design project."

Tags: Donald Ross, Florida, Municipal Golf, Park, Public Golf, Renovation, Richard Mandell, Short Course 

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"A Los Angeles based media executive, whose home is in Milwaukee, Halyard heads-up a Society established in 1989 to preserve and enhance the profile of a man responsible for creating 456 courses in North America and beyond – and to safeguard the integrity of “the Golden Age of Golf Course Architecture.”"

Tags: Donald Ross, Donald Ross Society, Royal Dornoch, Scotland

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"Future PGA Tour stars Ben Crenshaw, Hal Sutton, David Duval, Dustin Johnson and Luke Donald made their competitive golf bones by winning this event, which was first contested in 1962."

Tags: Donald Ross, GlobalGolfPost.com, Private Golf, Rhode Island, USGA

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"Situated in the Philly suburbs, this (public!) Donald Ross original is an absolute gem."

Tags: Donald Ross, GOLF.com, Municipal Golf, Pennsylvania, Public Golf, Ron Prichard

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