Mike collects golf courses, especially the links variety. During 23 trips across America’s boundary oceans he has gathered 115 of them that included the 14 historic Open Rota venues. To him, the old links become interactive museums where you can actually get your hands and feet on the jewels of golf. He says the experience of walking down a fairway to a shot on these links is the equivalent of running down a long fly ball in center field in Yankee Stadium.
Preceding his golf pursuits, the author graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana School of Law, Bloomington. His golf memberships have included the Country Club of Indianapolis (est. 1891), Broadmoor Country Club (est. 1921) and the Ulen Country Club, Lebanon, IN (est. 1924).
An interview with Mike taken after a round at Tasmania’s Barnbougle Dunes appears here.
Mike recommends that would-be linksters listen to the recitation of the late English Poet Laureate John Betjeman’s poem “Seaside Golf” here.
