McCartin's, however, will be put to real-world use in the coming years. Masters theses and Ph.D dissertations tend have short shelf lives, instead gathering dust in academic obscurity. En route to earning his Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia in 2008, he wrote a thesis called “ Making a Model Municipal Facility: A Case Study of East Potomac Park Golf Course,” which advocated for the restoration of the course, originally laid out by classic golf course architect Walter Travis. McCartin's passion for the municipal courses of Washington runs deep. He recently sat down for an interview about his organization's goals and vision for golf in the District (You can watch in the video above). McCartin, who has worked on more than a dozen projects with Doak's Renaissance Golf Design firm, owns his own architecture practice, and laid out the popular Schoolhouse Nine short course in rural northern Virginia in 2015.
He also oversees the club's charitable arm, the Outpost Foundation, which raises funds for scholarships for youths employed at partner clubs, as well as COVID-19 relief. Smith, who has worked with Tom Doak, Gil Hanse and other premier architects, is one of the co-founders of The Outpost Club, a national golf society that holds tournaments for its members around the country. All three facilities are affordable and publicly accessible, administrated by the United States Department of the Interior via the National Parks Service.Įstablished in 2019 as a non-profit awareness group to advocate for the refurbishment of these three popular courses, the National Links Trust was co-founded by Michael McCartin and Will Smith, two D.C.-based golf course architects and shapers with a passion for the classic golf course architecture, history and potential social impact all three golf facilities offer. In late June, the National Links Trust announced that it had won the right to negotiate a lease for the operation of three historic Washington-area golf courses: East Potomac Park, Rock Creek Golf Course and Langston Golf Course. Or, more accurately, three big steps that should dispel the notion that our nation's capital is one of the more public golf-deficient parts of the country. The American golf 'Munaissance' is about take another big step forward.
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