John Stanton Fleming Morrison
John Stanton Fleming Morrison (born April 17, 1892 in Deal , † January 28, 1961 in Farnham ) was an English golf architect and main representative of the golden age of golf architecture .
Life
JSF Morrison attended Trinity College in Cambridge between 1912 and 1920 , where, in addition to football and cricket, he also played golf and made it up to the captain of the team. During the First World War he was a pilot for the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service ; in addition to several military awards, he is also credited with one of the first landings on an aircraft carrier. After completing his law and history studies, he became a golf architect and published in Country Life magazine and a book called About Golf.
As an amateur golfer, Morrison was able to celebrate some successes, for example he won the Belgian Open Amateur Championship in 1929. But he also remained active in football and cricket and competed at national level. Henry Longhurst described him as fit, fearless, and of massive build.
In 1922, Morrison joined Sunningdale Golf Club, where he met Harry Colt , who was building the New Course. A year later he was accepted by this as a partner and from 1928 he acted as director of Colt Alison & Morrison Ltd. Morrison and Charles Hugh Alison each received 100 shares, while the more prestigious Colt claimed the remaining 800 of the issued shares. From 1952, after the death of his partner, he continued to run the company on his own until the end of his life.
During the Second World War he worked as an instructor for the Royal Air Force and achieved the rank of Group Captain .
plant
In terms of style, Morrison's work hardly differed from the Colts, but it is of particular importance for the development of golf architecture in Germany. Together with Harry Colt, he created the first places in international standards, which in particular shaped Bernhard von Limburger's later designs.
These included the Frankfurter GC (1928), the Aachener GC (1927), the Lübeck-Travemünder GC (1928, today largely changed), the GC Bergisch-Land (1929), the Hamburg GC Falkenstein (1930) and some layouts in East Germany (Chemnitz, Saxony, Saalfeld), which perished during the GDR regime. In 1957, the Hamburger Land- & Golf-Club Hittfeld followed. In addition, Morrison was also active in France (Hossegor 1930, St. Cloud Jaune 1930) as well as in Wales (St Mellons 1936) and Italy (Circolo Golf Torino "La Mandria" 1956, GC Biella "Le Betulle" 1958). His most significant redesign was the Prince's Golf Club (1950 with Sir Guy Campbell), which was largely destroyed in World War II. He made minor changes to Royal Lytham & St. Anne's (1935), Royal Cinque Ports (1939), Royal Portrush (1946), West Surrey (1948), Moortown (1950), The Berkshire (1955) and Royal Troon ( 1957).
literature
- Fred W. Hawtree: Colt & Co .: Golf Course Architects . Cambuc Archives, 1991. ISBN 0951779303
- Peter Pugh, Henry Lord: Masters of Design: Great Courses of Colt, Mackenzie, Alison and Morrison . Icon Books Ltd, London 2009. ISBN 1848310900
- Geoffrey S. Cornish , Ronald E. Whitten: The Architects of Golf . HarperCollins, New York 1993. ISBN 0062700820
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morrison, John Stanton Fleming |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morrison, JSF; Morrison, JSF |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English golf architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | deal |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1961 |
| Place of death | Farnham |