The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast

367 - Alister MacKenzie (part 1)

• Cookie Jar Golf • Season 1 • Episode 367

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Sam is in the chair this time to bring to life the good Dr - Alister MacKenzie - considered by many to be the most influential golf course architect in history. 

In part 1 we discuss MacKenzie's childhood, his education, going to Cambridge and serving in the Boer war. We also discuss the formation of Alwoodley and his golfing career leading into that, as well as Moortown and through to 1914 and the outbreak of WWI having finished designing Sitwell park.  

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