The Controversial Beginnings of Royal St. Georges

Published: July 11, 2021, 9:39 p.m.

b"When Royal St. George's Golf Club, the host of the upcoming Open Championship, opened in the late 1880s, it looked a lot different than it does today. The earliest iteration of the course embodied the Victorian principles of its designer, Laidlaw Purves. Over the next few decades, those principles\\u2014and Royal St. George's itself\\u2014came under fire from a new school of golf writers and architects. Historian Bob Crosby joins Garrett Morrison to discuss this debate and its far-reaching consequences."