On June 5th, Highlands CC is fortunate to be hosting Brad Klein at the year's first enrichment event! This is an event you won't want to miss...make your reservations by calling (828) 526-2184!
Bradley S. Klein is enior writer and architecture editor
for Golf Channel and its affiliated website, GolfAdvisor.com.
Previously, he was architecture editor of Golfweek for
30 years and the founding editor of Superintendent News, Dr. Klein is a
former PGA Tour caddie, a stint that included six U.S. Opens and service as
Bernhard Langer’s first U.S. Tour caddie. In 2006 Klein was inducted into the
International Caddie Hall of Fame.
He holds a Ph.D. in political science and was a university
professor for fourteen years in international relations and political theory
before “retiring” from academia in 1999 to devote himself fulltime to golf
writing.
He has published seven books on golf architecture and
history, including Discovering Donald Ross, winner of the USGA 2001
International Book Award, and Wide Open Fairways (2013). In 2015 he won
his industry’s highest honor, the American Society of Golf Course
Architecture’s Donald Ross Award for lifetime achievement.
Klein
has served as a consultant on numerous early golf course development and
restoration projects, including such Donald Ross-designed courses as Oakland
Hills in Michigan, Scioto Golf Club in Ohio, Augusta Country Club in Georgia
and the Country Club of Mobile in Alabama.
Klein
is a widely-sought speaker on golf industry matters and has regularly presented
to the USGA, and affiliated trade organizations of of golf pros,
superintendents, architects and club managers.
On June 5th, his topic is “Donald Ross and Highlands Country Club: In Search of a Design
Legacy”
Donald
Ross was the most prolific golf course architect of the first half of the 20th
century. Highlands Country Club is among those layouts where he worked his
magic. In this talk we explore the distinctive aspects of Ross’ design legacy
that have given Highlands GC its special character. To understand those
elements is to apprecviate the course and to be able to play better.