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...golfers finished sandwiched between Jacksonville and Flagler in their first duel match played on Flagler's home 18, the Donald Ross-designed Ponce de Leon course. Flagler is a small college golfing titan, so the Crimson's one-stroke victory proved as rare and refreshing as the barbecued steaks served up by Flagler's colorful coach Hoop Thebault at his St. Augustine condominium...
...linksters then traveled down to Melbourne, Fla., to play in the Florida Institute of Technology Invitational. The squad trailed behind Flagler and Florida Tech despite uncorking four rounds in the 70s, but buried MIT by 25 strokes...
...linksters will play a series of matches against host team Flagler College. The college's namesake was Henry M. Flagler, who singlehandedly developed much of Florida's east coast. The first golfing oasis he built was none other than Ponce de Leon. Flagler went on to develop what were to become Miami and Palm Beach, where he built what was then the largest resort hotel in America...
...When Flagler decided to make St. Augustine into a tourist haven, the man he selected to design the Ponce de Leon course was Donald Ross. The son of a Scottish stonemason. Ross became the professional at the Dornoch course in his native town. A Harvard professor named Robert Wilson, who spent his summers in Dornoch and became enraptured with golf, persuaded him to emigrate to America. Ross arrived in Boston in 1898 with $2 in his pocket. He went on to design over 500 courses, many of which are among the outstanding tests of golf in the country...
Donovan's charges were greeted by a "Welcome Harvard Gold Team" banner draped over the front of the Ponce de Leon Inn and were then squired in a limousine to play Flagler on the Sawgrass golf club...