College classics 101
No. 13 of the Rawls Course at Texas Tech
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To those who say modern college students don’t have an appreciation for the classics, we present you with contradictory evidence: the 2011 Golfweek’s Best Campus Courses list.
Fourteen of the 30 courses on the college list predate 1960, which also makes them candidates for the Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses list. In fact, the top two collegiate layouts – The Course at Yale (1926) and Taconic Golf Club (1927) at Williams College – also occupy spots on the top 100 Classic list, released earlier this year. Yale and Taconic also held down the top two spots on the 2010 campus courses list.
The late Robert Trent Jones Sr. still has more top college designs than any other architect, with five on this year’s list, including four courses that opened before 1960. Those include the course that bears his name at his alma mater, Cornell. Architect Pete Dye placed ...
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