Publisher's Synopsis
"When a nationally ranked university sets out to build a golf course, the results are bound to be something special. Add in a dynamic and visionary athletic director, a world-renowned golf course architect, and 297 verdant and gently rolling acres, and you get Scarlet and Gray, the Ohio State University Golf Club In Columbus, Ohio. Beautiful and challenging, built by hand by a thousand WPA workers with picks and shovels, Scarlet has been the home course of some of golf's greatest. From college champions, to the winningest coach in the NCAA, to some of the biggest names in the PGA, OSU pride runs deep, especially among the club's alumni members. Dedicated in 1940 and considered the finest college golf course in the country, Scarlet and Gray was the brainchild of Ohio State Athletic Director Lynn Wilber St. John as designed by one of the greatest golf course architects of his or any other time, Dr. Alastair MacKenzie. This is the story of
