The Posters and the Plans
The Course Surveyed
The railway that built golf tourism, and the doctor who mapped the Old Course.
1900–1930
The game as destination and design. The railways built golf tourism and their posters are its founding advertisements — North Berwick and Cruden Bay, sold by the sheet. And Alister MacKenzie’s 1924 plan of the Old Course, design scripture with every bunker named. Course and club names appear here only under the historical-document doctrine, with logged sign-off. WATCH LIST: the great 1930s railway posters unlock annually from January 2027, and cannot publish early.
Why this school is here
The Haskell — the Rubber Core
Britain & United States · 1898–1930
Coburn Haskell’s wound rubber-core ball (1898) flew farther than anything before it and carried golf into its modern, mass, railway-borne age — Crombie’s Rules, the golfing girl, the travel posters, the surveyed course. Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller framework.
Collections
The Railways Built the Game
Golf by Rail
North Berwick, Cruden Bay — every great links came with a timetable.
c. 1900–1930 · Britain
France & the Alps
The Continental Links
The golf holiday, sold in full colour at station scale.
1921–1930 · France, Switzerland
MacKenzie’s Old Course
The Course Surveyed
The ground was the first architect.
1924 · St Andrews
In the wing
The Course Surveyed
Plan of the Old Course — Alister MacKenzie, 1924
Design scripture: every bunker named, every contour argued.
The Continental Links
Golf — Houlgate, Cabourg
René Vincent, 1930 — the largest and last sheet the house can legally hang.
The Continental Links
Le Golf de Font-Romeu
Cappiello, 1929 — the poster master takes a swing in the Pyrenees.
The Continental Links
Vichy — Sport, Tourisme, Théâtre
Roger Broders, 1928: the golf holiday as a complete proposition.
The Continental Links
South Cliff Links
A 1921 seaside links poster at twelve thousand pixels.
The Continental Links
Golfers at the Miami Biltmore, 1927
The American resort boom photographed at ten thousand pixels.
On the Watch List
Staged behind the velvet rope — cleared in principle, but never published before its January unlock.
The Great 1930s Railway Golf Posters
Opening January 2027
86 days remaining