The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes
Nothing lasts forever.Missing Linksis a testament to how  ephemeral even great golf courses designed by master architects can be. It's  enough to break a hacker's heart.In this lovely homage to what once was,Daniel Wexleridentifies 47 historically  significant pre-World War II courses lost largely to the needs of post-World War  II development, and then proceeds to tee up their stories. Some of the courses  loom as mythically large as Atlantis--Charles Blair Macdonald's Lido Golf Club  on Long Island is still considered one of the most innovative designs ever, and  A.W. Tillinghast's Fresh Meadow Country Club not only hosted the first PGA  Championship, it boasted Gene Sarazen as head pro. Each of the lost gems is  presented with a history filled with anecdotes, a complete diagram of the  layout, a scorecard, and as many vintage photos as Wexler could fit. Most  intriguing, Wexler also projects how each course might measure up today. Lido,  insists Wexler, would still have golf traditionalists salivating--it would be,  he surmises, "one of America's best... Every bit as good today as the day it was  born." Amazingly,Missing Linksevocatively extols dozens more nearly as  worthy.--Jeff Silverman