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- After consulting with Charles B. Macdonald, the founder and architect of the club on Long Island, Maxwell proceeded to lay out four holes on a dairy farm he owned just north of Ardmore, a property that would eventually evolve into Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club where he was the first designer to implement grass greens in Oklahoma.
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Perry Duke Maxwell (June 13, 1879 – November 15, 1952) was an American golf course architect. He was a founding member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and was an inductee into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. He was known as the "father of Oklahoma golf".
The preeminent American course architect of the Depression era was Oklahoman Perry Duke Maxwell, an Ardmore banker who designed his first golf course, Ardmore's Dornick Hills Country Club, in 1913, with the help of his wife, Ray Wood Maxwell, and their children.
Perry Maxwell was a founding member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects. Known for forming links out of the natural terrain, rather than by wholesale land movement, he continued to design and build golf courses until he died on November 15, 1952, in Tulsa.
May 10, 2022 · But Maxwell was most prominent in Oklahoma. He built 40 courses across the state. His first effort at Dornick Hill took nearly 10 years to complete and featured the state’s first grass greens. The course was immediately labeled as Oklahoma’s best and began hosting regional and state tournaments.
Maxwell took golf to ‘the desert’. He was the first architect to make ‘greens’ as opposed to the browns that people in Oklahoma and the other states in the region had played for years. Maxwell did get the notice of several others in the industry for his work. Alister MacKenzie requested his assistance.
May 16, 2022 · One of Maxwell's first courses was Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club and Prairie Dunes Country Club are two others in Maxwell’s...
Perry Maxwell. Maxwell designed Prarie Dunes, Southern Hills, and Colonial, while making major contributions to the layouts of Pine Valley, Augusta National, Merion Golf Club, and Crystal Downs.
