European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine Dean of Golf course architects by Hugh Mulligan associated press Robert Trent Jones of is a Golf course the most famous or infamous in the depending on How you View this amiable if your View of him on a country club Veran say Oakland for is across a verdant rolling True towards an inviting Jones might be mistaken for anyone favorite if your View is from the Depths of one of his diabolical Sand which look like something left Over from a b 52 then he comes across As the Devil contrary to the opinions of Many if not most pros the exceptions perhaps being those also in the Busi Ness of designing Golf this Dean of Golf course architects does not kick his Heap abuse on his Caddy or Light candles and Don symbolic thumbscrews on Torquemada his recipe for rejuvenating an aging links like Oak land is not taken directly from the Lucrezia Borgia Cookbook or Ambrose Bierce devils Al though some Bogie befuddled Journeyman who fails to make the Cut will surely entertain such it never will be forgotten among practitioners of this Royal and ancient sport that when Jones modernized Oakland Hills for the 1951 by strategically dumping 400 tons of Sand about the premises in 120 agonizing heaps and Only two of the worlds greatest players managed to break Par in any of the four Days of the the rest were calling for Jones preferably on a even Ben who won by finally breaking Par with a course record then of called the place a while others complained the Bunke flanked fairways were so narrow foursomes had to walk Indian file to get to the who has designed 450 Golf courses in 34 coun tries around the can and does at age 77 smile through the tears and lamentations and scorecard shredding of professional golfers who come to grief in the Sand traps and water hazards that have become his architectural once a scratch or Par golfer he Howe confess to a bit of Chagrin and some guilt feelings when one of his own shots lies buried in one of his own traps on a course he Why  i or they be punished for making a poor shot he says with a righteous while looking up from the drawing Board in his office and defending the scottish calvinist View of Golf As part of the divine purpose to punish human frailty and Mold character through after Golf held up to natures Mirror spells Pride goeth before a fall on your typical Robert Trent Jones which can be played a number of ways heroically by the pro going All out for daringly by the Low Handicap Amateur trying to beat or match safely by your average golfer for whom Bogie Golf is Good of the pilgrimage from tee to Green should be satisfying or at least Scenic enough to keep the daily Duffer from kicking in the door of his locker or Savouring his most satisfying shots Bac Toback at the clubhouse to Jones left on his office Wall hangs a portrait of the treacherous 3 Hole at Mauna Kea on the big Island of which Jones carved out of volcanic Rock and perched on a verdant precipice above the pounding a today top pros have no trouble blasting out of says admiring the tropical Vista from his swivel the immortal Bobby Jones no but a longtime Friend said Landing in a Bunker is like being in an automobile Accident plunking into water is like a plane on the opposite Wall is a Lovely Oil painting of the Short and some say sadistic 16th Hole Jones created for which the other famous Jones Laid out with the help of Alister a scottish physician who gave up curing people with Medicine to torment them with his Golf on a kidney shape Green beside a Golf Ball gobbling lace that the Jones dark magic created from an innocent Jack Nicklaus is seen flanked by Arnold Palmer and George while Gary player lurks in the shadows of those menacing overhanging no picnic on the this genuine old the Wall before him is almost completely covered with a diagrammatic worksheet for the grand Cayman Golf the latest to emerge from his drawing upon which Rice paddies in mangrove swamps in puerto jagged peaks in the Canadian Rockies and an air Force bombing target Range in Myrtle have been transformed into playgrounds for masochists in Dodge pm the Telephone rings in the Middle of a Jones anecdote about Royal which he designed for King Hassan ii of an avid golfer who gave Refuge to the exiled Shah of Iran and urged him to take up Golf to get his mind off his vanished the Cunard company is put on hold with a request for designing a course on the Caribbean Island of mar while Jones gets to the Point of the wherein Claude the great pro and is engaged to give the Royal but the Shah was unable to concentrate because 20 of his generals had been shot that a Secretary Sticks her head in to confirm flight reservations the next Day to where he will attend a meeting of the american society of Golf architects and unveil his 450th the new course at Bally Union on the breathtaking headlands of Kerry where the wide Mouth of the River Shannon meets the wild dunes 25 feet High form a natural like the old scottish meaning the duffers cant blame All the Sand hazards on the Peter the British Golf says its the greatest links course in the murmured Jones in pardonable Sel Fawe at having been accused of outdoing Andrews and Carnoustie where nature has been at work for 500 born in Jones was taken to America a age 4 by his parents and grew up in he caddies at the local country club for Walter Hagen and was Good enough with the Sticks by age 14 to finish one stroke behind the Leader who broke the course record in a pro Amateur his High Point As a golfer was a lot place finish in the Canadian but by that time Trent had already found his career and practically created the academic discipline of Golf architecture by taking courses in four different schools at Cornell he studied agronomy and horticulture in the agriculture de sign and landscaping in the architecture school con surveying and land drainage in the College of and Public speaking and journalism in the arts although old Tom Morris of Andrews Fame was engaged to design Royal county Down in Ireland for a sum not exceeding 4 pounds Sterling and the scrubland for the Plymouth Rock of Sun Belt Golf was bought for a Dollar an it takes up wards of million to build a Golf course the figure is not Jones brought in Bally Union at but some of his rivals have gone As High As million or what architect Pete Dye Calls a Bunch of zeros in devising private Golf preserves for Texas and Oklahoma Robert Trent Jones poses at the country club on one of 450 Golf courses he has july 1985 the stars and stripes a photo Page 13