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39 pp. Illustrated from 11 photographs, most full-page (1 double-page of Banff); 4 golf course sketches including the 14th hole at St. Andrews, Scotland. (8vo) original saddle stitched tan-cream wrappers, front cover lettered in black, housed in the original green envelope lettered in dark green "Thompson & Jones...New York, NY, Golf Course Architects." First Edition.

Rare and important golf architecture booklet in its original envelope by Robert Trent Jones (1906-2000), the great golf architect and overall ambassador to the game (not to be confused with Bobby Tyre Jones). In the early 1930's, Jones joined Stanley Thompson, the respected Canadian golf course architect. By the mid-1930’s he left Thompson and struggled through the depression era creating public courses as part of the Work Progress Administration. It was not until after WWII that his career really took off. His redesign of Oakland Hills GC for the 1951 U.S. Open became known as "The Monster." Jones was a founding member and past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and recipient of the first Donald Ross Award. Hailed as the father of modern golf course architecture, Trent Jones' design career spanned seven decades and included nearly 500 new courses and nearly as many redesigns and remodels. Bobby Jones said that Trent Jones was the best golfing golf course architect he ever encountered. Rare in envelope. D&M 22540; D&J J9040.