Lasting Impressions: The Country Club of Rochester

139 pp. Sometimes, the path to the future can be almost clearly charted by going back to the past. In 1912, Donald Ross arrived in Rochester to create a golf course more sophisticated than Upstate New YOrk had ever seen before.How extraordinary that Walter Hagen, the club's brash, young pro, a product of CCR's own caddie yard - would go off to win his first US Open the very summer the new course was unveiled. Sadly, over time, much of the design's integrity was lost: to trees, to other architects, to the whims of a succession of Green Committees. In the first decade of the 21st century , it would, once again, be found.