Massachusetts-based golf course and landscape architect Wayne Stiles compiled an impressive body of work during a 40-year career. Starting as a draftsman with Brett & Hall of Boston, Stiles established his own firm in 1915 and a year later planned the Nashua Country Club in New Hampshire, the first of more than 145 courses he was involved with.
This 304-page, full-color, 8 ½ x 11, hard cover, dust jacketed volume details his personal life, competitive career, landscape architecture work and his golf course portfolio. Filled with more than 500 illustrations—including historic photographs, modern images, scorecards, postcards, drawings, plans and architectural renderings—the book details the 76 courses that still exist, in addition to dozens that have disappeared or been radically altered by other course designers or the passage of time.
Drawing on the expertise of golf course architects who knew Stiles or have studied his work, countless members and staff of Stiles’ courses, newspaper articles and municipal records and archives, guidebooks, advertisements and the architect’s own correspondence this is the first in-depth work on a man who influenced the field of golf architecture over a span of decades in nearly every region of the country.
Purchase price $40 plus shipping. You can also order the book by check, for $40 plus $8 shipping (and $2 tax for Massachusetts residents), sent to Excelsior Press at the address below.
Through the generosity of co-author Kevin Mendik all proceeds from the sale of the book go to a college fund for the children of co-author Bob Labbance who has been diagnosed with ALS. Thank you for your contribution. You may also donate directly to the fund through using the field on the right-hand side of this page, or by sending a check to:
SGL Education Fund
Kevin Mendik
C/O Steve Nelson at Excelsior Press
PO Box 917
North Adams, Massachusetts 01247
Phone: 413-663-3771