R.I.P. Jay Morrish
/Golf Course Industry's Pat Jones reports that the golf architect known for his work as a Jack Nicklaus associate and later for his highly successful partnership with Tom Weiskopf, has passed away.
**The ASGCA's remembrance of a former association president.
**Ron Whitten remembers Morrish fondly and talks to former design partner Tom Weiskopf who said their courses had never needed changing.
I had to challenge Tom on that last statement. After all, he'd just spent much of 2014 rebuilding every hole at TPC Scottsdale, an early Morrish and Weiskopf flagship design.
"That was a result of technology," he said. "When you have the world's best golfers playing a course every year, you'd got to keep it competitive. But its basic structure was still sound. We didn't change that."