
With the PGA Championship in full swing at Bethpage Black, the Society of Golf Historians tweeted a photo of a letter A.W. Tillinghast wrote to the PGA of America after getting a personal tour of Pinehurst No. 2 from Donald Ross.
It’s, well, AWESOME:
The day AW Tillinghast sat down with Donald Ross in Pinehurst. Ross gave Tilly a hole-by-Hole tour of Pinehurst #2. A course that Ross claimed had not a single weak hole. Special thanks to the Tillinghast Society & the PGA.@PinehurstResort #GolfCourseArchitecture#GolfHistory pic.twitter.com/BDL96QIxvF
— Society of Golf Historians (@SHistorians) May 17, 2019
“Donald is certain that this is his greatest piece of work and he is tremendously proud of it, as he may well be for it is a truly great course – without a single weak hole,” wrote Tillinghast on Dec. 6, 1935, a few months before the PGA Championship would be played on No. 2. “…Without a doubt one of the greatest of all American courses.”

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