Heading: (Fishers Island Club - New York)
Author: Ferguson, Charles B.
Title: Sixty-Seven Years of the Fishers Island Club Golf Links, 1926-1993
Place Published: [Fishers Island, NY]
Publisher:[Privately printed]
Date Published: [1993]
Description:

ix, 69 pp. Forewords by Richard W. Goss, II and C.G. Arnold. Illustrated from photographs (some in color) and color maps from drawings. (4to) blue cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, map endpapers, acetate cover. No. 85 of 500 hand-numbered copies. First Edition.

Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Richard W. Goss, II and Charlie G. Arnold, at the end of their forewords. Beautiful golf course, often compared to Cypress Point (Monterey), designed by New York native Seth Raynor (1874-1926) just before he passed away. Raynor trained as a landscape engineer and was town surveyor for Southampton when another great designer, Charles Blair Macdonald, hired him in 1908 to work on the site of National Golf Links of America. The two worked well together and they went on to form an influential design team, with Macdonald concentrating on conceptual work and only a few projects while Raynor devoted himself to construction and detailed design on a wider scale. Ask just about anyone and they will tell you that Fishers Island Club is on their bucket list. A remote island destination off the New England coast that requires a ferry ride if you are lucky enough to score an elusive invite. This uber scarce club history of the #9 ranked golf course in the country is as high quality and detailed as they come. D&J F5980.

Fine.