2022's Major Venues: Ranking The Intrigue Factor

The Quadrilateral has lumped the nine men’s and women’s major venues of 2022 into one package and done what any self-respecting publication would do: rank them. I should probably also rank where this year ranks on the list of great venue years but one ranking is enough for now. Too many exciting venues sporting shiny new paint jobs to celebrate!

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Significant Augusta National Design Artifact Up For Auction

The Golf Auction is offering this rendering with MacKenzie commentary.

An early Amen Corner rendering features Alister MacKenzie's handwritten notes and is up for auction.

Here is the listing at The Golf Auction.

Readers who have committed my Golden Age of Golf Design to memory will recognize the plan from page 163. For reasons I don’t recall and apologize in advance for, we did not include a similar rendering of the fifth hole that appeared with the auction item.

In this Quadrilateral post, I explore its authenticity given efforts in recent years to fraudulently pass of MacKenzie and Tillinghast drawings, plus consider its importance in the small world of great architectural renderings.

Forget Disneyland, The Braves Are Going To Augusta

Thanks to reader GS for Jeff Passan’s look back at the Atlanta Braves’ improbable late season turnaround and behind-the-scenes anecdotes that included this:

The celebration at Minute Maid differed by the square foot. In one area, Pederson was running up to Terry McGuirk, the Braves' chairman, and yelling: "We're going to f---ing Augusta! Hell yeah! I f---ing told you." McGuirk, a member at Augusta National, had told players that if they win a World Series, he can swing getting them a tee time.