Askernish, Links and The New Yorker

Thanks to reader Dan for the abstract link to David Owen's New Yorker story on the resurrection of Scotland's Old Tom Morris original, Askernish (here's the link for subscribers).  There is also an audio slideshow by Owen. I mostly enjoyed Owen's explanation of links golf and the difference between old and modern design. Assuming the average New Yorker reader got that far, they would be in for an eloquent explanation as to why some of us take this architecture stuff so seriously.

John Garrity has also written about Askernish in this 1991 SI story, and more recently in T&L Golf last year.