Chris Millard, the co-author of a 2016 history of NGLA, joins the podcast to talk about Charles Blair Macdonald's creation of National Golf Links of America. They discuss how he developed his idiosyncratic design philosophy in the first decade of the 20th century, his hugely important partnership with Seth Raynor, and the monumental effort he put into funding, building, grassing, and promoting National Golf Links.

Episode 2 in the Great Courses Podcast Series

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