Restoring
VGC
By Jeff Mingay
S
ome golfers think that
restoring an original golf
course design from a pre-
vious era is nothing more than
nostalgic. Some times though,
when you look back at a
course's history it becomes ap-
parent that time and evolution
hasn't been kind. Golf courses
are living things after all. They're
in a constant state of change;
and, change isn't always good.
When I started putting togeth-
er a Master Plan for the Victoria
Golf Club back in 2009, I quick-
ly realized that while few fun-
damental changes had been
made to the course's layout
since the 1920s, much had in
fact changed. An aerial photo
from the 1950s era is most tell-
ing. That's when I believe VGC
was at its architectural peak.
By that time, the club's resident
golf architect—A.V. Macan—
