Golden Age, and therefore did not provide a precise guide to contours (the drawings were marked with heights, but not exact ones). Straka was, though, able to overlay them onto a modern image of the site and thus use Ross’s work to create construction drawings of contemporary standard. Work was planned to start in March 2020, but at the last minute, the club realised that obtaining the necessary permits from the US Corp of Engineers would take significantly longer than expected. Given what happened to the world almost immediately afterwards, this was perhaps a blessing in disguise: Donald Ross’s 1915 design plan for the courses at Belleair. The architect had already worked on the West and laid out the club’s more inland East course in the previous decade. Below are his notes on the third hole, from 1924, when he returned to revise the courses Images: Belleair CC 75
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