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- The golf course at the Longue Vue Club was designed by a man who is sometimes forgotten, yet greatly recognized as being one of the forefathers of golf in America. Robert White, whom the Club still honors through a yearly golf event, was commissioned to build the golf course by Longue Vue’s Board of Governors in April 1922.
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White helped many young men from the British Isles find work in the United States as golf professionals and greenkeepers. White, who was best known as a golf course architect and golf administrator, was an accomplished golfer but didn't post many notable results.
Robert White, a founding member of ASGCA and first president of the PGA of America, helped lay the foundation for American golf. Born in St. Andrews, Scotland, he emigrated in 1894 to the United States to study agronomy.
As the years went on, Robert became known as a respected architect of golf courses and helped to design 30 golf courses around the United States. He would eventually move to Myrtle Beach and own several golf enterprises there. Myrtle Beach has the honor of a Robert White golf course in Pine Lakes Country Club.
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The golf course at the Longue Vue Club was designed by a man who is greatly recognized as being one of the forefathers of golf in America. Robert White, whom the Club still honors through a yearly golf event, was commissioned to build the golf course by Longue Vue's Board of Governors in April 1922.
Robert W. "Bob" White: List of courses designed by Robert W. "Bob" White with ratings and reviews
One of its founders was noted golf course architect Robert White. The abbreviation is typically referenced at the end of a person's name when documenting or discussing golf course architecture.
A true pioneer, Robert White was the first to build a putting green on the White House lawn, one of the first designers and manufacturers of golf clubs in America, designer and builder of over 100 golf courses, and responsible for bringing golf to the Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
