At Sunningdale, where he was the club secretary from 1901 to 1913, Colt modernized Willie Park Jr.'s Old Course, extending it to accommodate the new rubber ball (in a Golf Club Atlas interview earlier this year, the present club secretary, Stephen Toon, said that while the members still considered the Old Course a Willie Park design they could "see Oakley Sunglasses Colt's influence"). He made significant changes to Robert Chambers and George Morris's 43-year-old course at Royal Liverpool (Hoylake) and, starting in 1919, strengthened George Lowe's original design at Royal Lytham & St. Anne's by repositioning greens and adding bunkers.
The work Colt carried out at each of these venues certainly enhanced their playing characteristics, but in nearly all cases the long-time member who observed Colt's Bvlgari Sunglasses changes would have recognized the course he left behind.
That might not have been true a
Replica Oakley Sunglasses Muirfield, however, where in 1923 Colt did to Old Tom Morris's often-criticized original what Alister Mackenzie would later do to Dan Soutar's Kingston Heath or what Mike Stranz did to Bob Baldock's Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula; i.e. turn a mundane, rather insipid sleeper into an unfailingly stimulating course full of probing questions and interesting shots.
For the Honourable Company from Edinburgh golf player*, Colt produced 14 new holes and rooted the course of action and then the front nine played dextral around the perimeter as the back nine played anticlockwise-ish - inside the outside closed circuit. Them equalled pure brilliance, nothing further, goose egg to a lesser extent. "Colt's rerouting of Muirfield peradventure the most groundbreaking routing out in the game's chronicle," says E. O. Lawrence.
