C&RBGC
README for working notes on golf history, architecture, hickory-era play, and the C&RBGC walking golf fellowship.
Notes on golf—its history, its architects, its courses, and especially the walking, hickory-era version of the game.
"C&RBGC" is shorthand for the Common & Recent Bogey Golf Club: a fellowship oriented around camaraderie, walking, and the older spirit of the game rather than scores or status. The target is bogey—match play, hole by hole, against Colonel Bogey.
These are working notes in motion, not finished essays—biased toward walking, hickory, classic architecture, Michigan, and the older orientation of the game.
Start here
- Hickory Era American Golf—the pre-1930 American game and how it played
- Golf's Original Constraints—what the game's original limits were, and why they matter
- Minimalist Golf Architecture School—the contemporary lineage returning to those values
- Recovering Golf's Original Orientation—the argument running underneath the rest
- History of Public Golf in America—how the public/democratic strand became dominant
Browse by topic
- Game Philosophy—what the game is for, and what modernization takes from it
- History—Scottish origins, the American arc, public courses, and the writers
- Hickory Era—the pre-1930 game and playing it today
- Rules of Golf Editions—the codified rules across the centuries
- Course Architecture—design principles and the minimalist architects
- Courses to Play—walking-friendly designs, with a Michigan bias
- Solo Golf—playing alone as a continuous tradition
