Notes

The Club’s informal writing: golf history, course architecture, the traditions of the Club year, and the arguments underneath them. The formal record — bylaws, notices, minutes — lives elsewhere on this site.

• Coore Crenshaw Course Portfolio June 21, 2026

  Comprehensive list of Coore Crenshaw golf course designs, renovations, 9-hole additions, and Bill Coore's pre-partnership work.

• Dream Golf & Cabot Portfolio June 21, 2026

  Complete property listing for Mike Keiser's Dream Golf and Cabot Collection, including courses, architects, and dates.

• Early American Golf's Decline June 21, 2026

  How colonial-era golf clubs in Charleston and Savannah faded after 1811, leaving a 70-year gap before the sport revived.

• Fried Egg Golf Club June 21, 2026

  Kindred-club note on Fried Egg Golf and its members' club — the architecture-and-municipal-golf ally of the C&RBGC's editorial side.

• Golf Course Design Principles June 21, 2026

  Eight principles prioritizing playability, walkability, pace, and simplicity in golf course design.

• Golf's Original Constraints June 21, 2026

  Early golf's rules and tools created difficulty and richness, while modern innovations erode the game's vernacular origins.

• Golf's Transition from Hickory to Steel Shafts June 21, 2026

  How steel golf shafts displaced hickory over a decade through competing governing bodies, patents, and cultural resistance.

• Hanse Golf Course Design Portfolio June 21, 2026

  Comprehensive catalog of Gil Hanse's original designs, restorations, and renovations from 1992 to present.

• Hickory Era American Golf June 21, 2026

  History of American golf from the 1880s to 1935, covering key figures, clubs, tournaments, and equipment of the hickory shaft era.

• Hickory Era Golf Club Names June 21, 2026

  Maps historical hickory-era golf club names (mashie, niblick, cleek, etc.) to their modern iron/wood equivalents.

• Hickory Golf Resources Directory June 21, 2026

  Curated links to clubs, makers, collectors, and event orgs for hickory golf equipment and play.

• Hickory Golf Starter Guide June 21, 2026

  Step-by-step guide to buying first hickory clubs, balls, and joining play organizations with a minimal viable setup.

• Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers History June 21, 2026

  Traces the governance evolution of the world's oldest golf club from its 1744 founding at Leith to Muirfield.

• Minimalist Golf Architecture School June 21, 2026

  Genealogy of minimalist and Golden Age revival golf architects from Pete Dye through Doak, Coore, Hanse, and their protégés.

• Roger Hill Hickory Golf Profile June 21, 2026

  Profile of Roger Hill: Grand Rapids photographer turned hickory golfer, SoHG co-founder, and Michigan Hickory Tour commissioner.

• Rules of Golf 1744 June 21, 2026

  The 13 original rules of golf written by the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith in 1744, with a 1758 amendment.

• Rules of Golf 1858 June 21, 2026

  The 1858 Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews rules covering play, teeing, hazards, and ball handling.

• Rules of Golf 1891 June 21, 2026

  The 1891 R&A rules covering stroke play, teeing, hazards, ball handling, and match format.

• Rules of Golf 1925 June 21, 2026

  Full text of the Rules of Golf as approved by the R&A in 1920 and amended in 1925, covering definitions, general rules, and medal play.

• Scottish Golf in the Regency Era June 21, 2026

  Overview of Scottish golf clubs, course layouts, social culture, and institutional decline during the Regency period (c. 1811–1820).

• Society of Hickory Golfers June 21, 2026

  Kindred-club note on the Society of Hickory Golfers — the take-the-bit-seriously society closest to the C&RBGC's own register.

• Society of Hickory Golfers Overview June 21, 2026

  Overview of the Society of Hickory Golfers: its origins, equipment guidelines, replica club debate, and U.S. Hickory Open.

• Tad Moore Hickory Golf Clubs June 21, 2026

  Overview of Tad Moore Golf's hickory-shafted club reproductions, their craft, niche market, and role in competitive hickory golf.

• The Golfer's Journal June 21, 2026

  Note on The Golfer's Journal — the member-supported quarterly of long-form golf writing and photography, and its Broken Tee Society community.

• Tom Coyne Golf Writer Profile June 21, 2026

  Profile of Tom Coyne: MFA novelist, author of the "Course Called" trilogy, and editor of The Golfer's Journal.

• Tom Doak Course Chronology June 21, 2026

  Chronological list of all 18-hole original Tom Doak / Renaissance Golf Design courses from 1989 to 2026.