Here Is Your G lf An excerpt from From Fields to Fairways, which was published by the University of Minnesota Press in March. Editor's Note: This is the second excerpt from Rick Shefchik's recently published book, From Fields to Fairways. Two more excerpts will appear in Minnesota Golfer this year. W 18 MINNESOTA GOLFER Spring 2012 hen soldiers returned to Minnesota from the European battlefi elds in 1919, abundant money and more leisure time combined to create an explosion in the demand for new golf courses. Three golf course architects were primarily responsible for the fi nest Minnesota courses that have survived from that 10-year building boom: Seth Raynor, Tom Vardon and William D. " Bill " Clark. Charles C. Gordon and C. Milton Griggs split from the Town & Country Club in 1919 to start Somerset Country Club in Mendota Heights. Each had been present at the inception of Town & Country in 1893, but felt it had become too crowded. To design its new golf course, Somerset hired Raynor, a Princeton-educated civil Golf Course Golf Course The Building Boom By Rick Shefchik of the 1920s e www.mngolf.org Part two in the four part series 1 2 3 4http://www.mngolf.org