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2017 marks the 70th anniversary of
the American Society of Golf Course
Architects. Toby Ingleton finds out
about the journey from 1947, and
what ASGCA represents today.
ASGCA 70TH ANNIVERSARY
T
he New Yorker hotel in Midtown
Manhattan, an icon of Art Deco
architecture from the city’s 1920’s
building boom, was a fitting location
for the first seeds of a new society of
architects to be sown.
But the group in question, galvanized into
action by two Roberts—Bruce Harris and
Trent Jones—did not deal with bricks and
mortar. Five were landscape architects and
years
ASGCA
of
ASCGA timeline
1947
First ASGCA Annual Meeting
hosted by Donald Ross, ASGCA,
at Pinehurst, North Carolina
1951
David Gordon, ASGCA, becomes
a member (now the longest-serving
in ASGCA history)
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1970
Paul Fullmer hired as first
ASGCA Executive Secretary
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