Golf Industry News - Donald Ross

Donald Ross designed the Carolina Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1929. Over the years, the course grew away from Ross’s original design; repeated edging changed the shape of the bunkers, and tree growth narrowed the hole corridors.

The legendary US golf course designer grew up in Dornoch on Scotland’s east coast and his masterpiece, Pinehurst No. 2, owes much to the natural links he tended as greens keeper and as his hometown club’s first ever professional

Founded by Englishman John Morley Sept. 13, 1926, at Sylvania Country Club in Toledo, Ohio, the organization was first called the National Association of Greenkeepers of America