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Robert Hunter's 1926 book The Links is on almost everyone's list of essential golf architecture readings. Over the past several weeks, a group of Fried Egg Golf Club members read it and discussed each chapter in detail. To cap off this inaugural FEGC Book Club, Garrett sits down with historians Bob Crosby and Stephen Proctor. Garrett, Bob, and Stephen discuss Hunter's life (he was an associate of Alister MacKenzie's at Cypress Point... and also a socialist), his excellent prose, and his occasionally odd but always compelling ideas about golf course design.

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