ere Is Your Cooom se olf ing ur By Rick Shefchik The Build of the 1920s An excerpt from From Fields to Fairways, which was published by the University of Minnesota Press in March. ries four part se Part two in th MINNESOTA GOLFER Spring 2012 Note: This is the second excerpt from Rick recently published book, From Fields to Fairways. Two more excerpts will appear in Minnesota Golfer this year. hen soldiers returned to Minnesota from the European in 1919, abundant money and more leisure time combined to create an explosion in the demand for new golf courses. Three golf course architects were primarily responsible for the Minnesota courses that have survived from that 10-year building boom: Seth Raynor, Tom Vardon and William D. Clark. Charles C. Gordon and C. Milton Griggs split from the Town Country Club in 1919 to start Somerset Country Club in Mendota Heights. Each had been present at the inception of Town Country in 1893, but felt it had become too crowded. To design its new golf course, Somerset hired Raynor, a Princeton-educated civil www.mngolf.org