You won't want to miss this excellent event! Brad Klein is a writer, professor and one of the foremost experts on Highlands CC golf course architect, Donald Ross.
Bradley S. Klein is senior 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 appreciate the course and to be able to play better.