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Photograph (Library of Congress) of Donald Ross, brother of Alex Ross, first golf professional at the York Country Club. Donald Ross, the famous golf course architect who helped to lay out parts of the York course. Between his birth in 1872 in Dornoch, Scotland and his death in Pinehurst, North Carolina in 1948, Donald James Ross managed to help reshape the face of American sports. He left behind a legacy of 399 golf courses that he either designed or redesigned. During his heyday in the 1920s, he was the country�s most prolific creator of golf courses. From 1919 through 1931, eight of the thirteen U.S. Opens were contested on layouts he had designed or redone. (Excerpted from the book by Brad Klein, Winner of the USGA 2001 International Book Award, �Discovering Donald Ross�, Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI)
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