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ELIZABETH “BETSY” GENTRY
ELIZABETH “BETSY” GENTRY
Grand-niece of Charles Blair Macdonald
Interviewed December 7, 2005
Interview (31 mins)
Her uncle was “part Mohawk Indian”. His mother (Blair) was born in Lundies Lane Canada, across the falls from Niagara Falls, where he was born. She says he is buried in Lundies Lane, other say Southampton L.I. His mother’s brother was a professor at St Andrews Scotland where he attended college. She gave us a family picture album, which we have copied. She was told that CB “had no sense of humor..was not a nice man..made and lost fortunes.” She met him once, in 1936 when she was 9-years-old. Her mother took the family to Long Island to meet him. She was told “to be on her best behavior” but “he seemed annoyed with us children”! On that occasion he took her mother to see the National course. As part of the tour he took her into the (men’s) locker room against her protest and to her great embarrassment. CB said he could do this because“he owned the place.” When Mrs. Gentry was married and vacationing in Bermuda, she saw the house (Old Battery) that Macdonald had maintained at the Mid Ocean course, with the guest cottage where “he had kept his mistress”. She says that CB “didn’t want to do the Yale course design, but agreed to do it only after a‘seam of sand’ was found on the property”.
GERRY FEHR
GERRY FEHR
Member of the Yale Golf Team, 1951-1955, Class of 1955
Interviewed on December 5, 2005 [conducted by telephone by John Godley]
Interview (14 mins)
Fehr began playing golf in 1944 at age 11 at the Seattle Olympic Golf Club, where he was a caddy. He won the high school city championship and later the state junior championship in 1949 and 1950. Recruited by the local alumni group he chose Yale over Stanford and came here on an academic scholarship. He found the golf course a “great challenge”. He arrived with a “scratch” handicap, but could do no better than shoot 75 in his freshman year. He learned to play a high fade [instead of a low draw] and by his senior year shot 66. He had 3 different coaches: Joe Sullivan as a freshman and sophomore, “Widdy” Neale as a junior, and Al Wilson as a senior. The varsity team won the Eastern Intercollegiate championship all three years and he took the individual championship two of those years.
Since graduation he has been in the life insurance business back in Seattle. He is a member of the Sands Point C.C. in Seattle, where he has been club champion 19 times. He won the Washington State Open in 1961 and the state senior amateur in 1990. He has played in the USGA amateur, senior amateur and senior open. He has been involved in the Washington Junior Golf Association [WJGA] since 1982. In 1984 he caddied for his son Rick in the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, where Rick was the low amateur, as he had been in the Masters Tournament earlier that year. Since 1993 Gerry has been the Executive Director of the WJGA. Presently there are more than 1,000 juniors in the program. Two members of the current women’s team, Lauren Ressler and Eillie Brophy, have come from the program.
In 1958, he was still thinking of the team.
PAUL “PETE” DYE
PAUL “PETE” DYE
Renowned golf architect
The following is based on a telephone conversation with Pete Dye by John Godley on January 15, 2007 when Pete was speaking from his home in Delray Beach, Florida.
Pete Dye has been one of the most influential golf course architects of the last 50 years. Ten of his courses are in the current Golf Digest list of the 100 best courses in America (see below). In 2005 he because only the 6th person to receive the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award. Before he attended Rollins College he served in the 82nd Airborne Division during WW II. During the 1950’s he was a leading amateur golfer, finishing ahead of both Palmer and Nicklaus in the ’57 US Open. At age 81 he carries an 8 handicap. This background gives him a unique perspective on many of the leading figures in golf during the last half century, including those who were Yale graduates. In the interview, Pete talks about his brother Roy, Yale Class of 1950, golf team member and golf course designer as well as other Yale friends, Jess Sweetser, Ed Meister, Herb Wind, Mark McCormack, Charlie Fraser, and Herb Kohler.
Brother Roy Dye graduated from the Asheville School and served in the Marine Corp before he entered Yale in 1946. He majored in chemical engineering and worked for Monsanto before he joined Pete in 1970. Roy was a good golfer, [a 3-4 handicap] who played on the Yale team. He did some of his best design work in Mexico and Arizona. Now, 3 of his 8 children are in the course design business. Pete played the Yale golf course once after Roy had graduated, because it had been designed by Seth Raynor, “one of the best in the business”.
Ed Meister was “a really good amateur player” and Pete “knew him well.” He pointed out that Ed had lost to Palmer in the semi-final of the 1954 US Amateur and had been a member of the Walker Cup team. He was also a good businessman “in the fertilizer business in Ohio.”
Pete was also well acquainted with another Walker Cup player and Captain, Jess Sweetser.
Charles Fraser’s father was a logger, who turned the southern part of Hilton Head Island over to him for development. He developed Sea Pines Plantation for which “he was a great salesman”. Pete was called in to design a course that had been “routed by Mr. Cobb before he died”. Jack Nicklaus was hired by Fraser as a consultant, “but was never paid for his services”. The original routing called for the 18th hole to parallel the present 10th hole i.e. 10th tee and 18th green by the clubhouse. But, all the soil from dredging for the marina needed to be disposed of, so Pete used it to create the 17th hole. The 18th is in its present location, along Calibogie Sound with the green next to the marina, because there was so much fill left over. The course, Harbour Town Golf Links, was completed just in time for the first Heritage Classic PGA tournament. Pete was “putting sand in the bunkers on the 18th when the first group to tee off was on the 14th hole on opening day”. Charlie Fraser “knew so little about golf that he was [at the same time] out removing ‘those ugly red and yellow stakes’”.
Herb Kohler “wanted to be an actor, but when his father died he came to run the foundry”. The dormitory across the street was converted into a 5 star hotel, The American Club. When it was decided that they wanted their own golf course, Herb came to Pete when he was working at Oak Tree. Pete couldn’t understand how a town of 1,500 [Kohler, Wisconsin] could support a golf course. He ended by designing 4 courses. Herb knew “zero about golf and they battled continuously”. Now Herb is an ardent golfer and a student of the game. He is “enamored of the game and the people in it”. Herb is “the most competitive man I have ever met. He would rather lose an arm than $20 in a match. He works his handicap so that he doesn’t lose.”
Mark McCormack was a “good amateur player” when Pete first met him in 1964. He was considering becoming a professional. Pete told him to “forget it, you have no chance”. As they say, the rest is history.
Herb Wind was a friend of Pete for more than 40 years. When he built the Teeth of the Dog Course at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic, Herb spent 2 weeks with Pete and Alice and then wrote a two-part article for Golf Digest. When they took their first trip to Scotland in 1963, it was Herb who insisted that they go north to Dornock “along a single lane road where sheep had the right of way”. That trip influenced his whole design career.
Ten Courses designed by Pete Dye which rank in the Golf Digest Top 100 U.S. Courses, 2006
- Whistling Straits (Straits), Haven, Wisconsin
- The Honors Course, Ooltewah, Tennessee
- The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island, South Carolina
- The Golf Club, New Albany, Ohio
- Blackwolf Run (River), Kohler, Wisconsin
- Long Cove Club, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
- Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Indiana
- Pete Dye Golf Club, Bridgeport, West Virginia
- TPC at Sawgrass (Stadium), Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
- Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
HEATHER DALY-DONOFRIO
HEATHER DALY-DONOFRIO
Yale ’91, current LPGA Tour Professional Player 
Interviewed on December 9, 2006
Interview (76 mins)
When Heather was 8 years old and swimming for the Norwalk Water Rats, she came to Yale’s Payne Whitney Gym for a swim meet. She was so awed by the pool that she went home and announced to her mother that she would only attend college at Yale. At age 13 she was on the New Haven Swim Club team, training at Yale under the direction of Yale’s famous coach Frank Keith. At 15 she started playing golf on the Roger Ludlow High School team under a non-golfer coach. Heather had learned how to play golf by reading instructional books and by the hard work of trial and error. True to her word, she only applied to Yale, where she had been recruited for both the golf and swim teams.
She entered Yale expecting to become a lawyer. Most of her time out of the classroom was spent on the golf course, practicing alone every afternoon and often not making it back to Berkeley College for dinner. After two years she quit the swim team to concentrate on golf. A semester of her junior year was spent at Oxford, where she “learned to study” and came back to a straight-A senior year.
The golf team had to share Coach David Paterson with the men’s team. She still had no formal golf lessons until after she graduated. But Coach Paterson taught her by “challenging her”; she still remembers being encouraged when he said on one occasion that she “would be a great player someday”. Still, Heather was not the best player on a team that had trouble finding 5 players for matches. Even so, the team won the Ivy League championship in 3 of her 4 years. By the time she graduated in 1991, she had decided to give professional golf a try for one or two years.
In 1992 and 1993 she won the Connecticut Women’s Amateur Championship. She worked at the Yale Golf Course during the summer and over winters in Jupiter Florida, where she cleaned clubs and carts and did other chores for $5 an hour (and practiced in all her free time). For 5 years she tried and failed to qualify for the LPGA Tour while she played mini tour events. She won 4 of those but still “went broke” several times. In 1997 she coached the Yale Women’s team so she could have a “paying job with benefits,” and finally qualified for the LPGA Tour at the end of the year. She played 20-24 LPGA events while coaching for the next 3 years. The team did well, winning the Ivy League Championship in 1998 and 2000. She was married in 1998. But by 2000 Heather was exhausted by her double roles and felt that the “girls weren’t getting what they had signed up for.” She stopped coaching to concentrate on trying to make a living playing on the professional golf tour.
Heather became the first and thus far only Yale graduate to win a US major professional golf tour tournament in 2001, when she won the Betsy King Classic. She ran for and won a seat on the LPGA Board of Directors in 2002. She said with a laugh that her good friend Beth Daniel “advised me to say that since I was a Yale graduate and therefore so smart, a vote for me should be automatic.” Heather won the LPGA Tour Championship in 2004. She became president of the board in 2005, after 2 years as co-chairman of the search committee for a new LPGA Commissioner. That year she also won the Powell Award. Her daughter Hanna was born in 2006. Her pregnancy along with the demanding duties as head of the Board of Directors during Commissioner Carolyn Bevins’ first year considerably reduced her playing time in 2006.
In Heather’s opinion, the changes made to the tour structure and administration during 2006 suggest that there is a bright future for the LPGA. The disparities in prize money, retirement benefits, etc with the PGA Tour are being addressed. “Except for distance, statistically we’re as good as the men.” With the presidency behind her and with a 3-year exemption, Heather is ready to return to the tour for another 2-3 years before moving on to her next career. The LPGA provides free day care at every event so she and Hanna, with the help of her mother and husband, will return to the tour in 2007. But Heather says, “at some point I wouldn’t mind working in sports marketing or for the Tour.
CARM COZZA
CARM COZZA
Yale football coach emeritus 
Interviewed on October 27, 2004
Interview (15 mins)
Carm Cozza learned golf at Yale when he arrived in 1963. He recalls that the clubhouse was a “log cabin” with “no watering.” At the time, Al Wilson was the ‘pro’, Harry Meusel the groundskeeper, and Widdy Neale was the manager. Carm carried own bag and found it a “challenge.” He averaged 24 rounds per season (i.e. May-August, before football season). He also brought many guests from worlds of entertainment and sports such as Johnny Mathus, Robert Goulet, Glen Campbell, Rich Little, Andy Williams, Otto Graham, Jim Kott, and John Pont. He has enjoyed rounds with his former players, including John Spagnola, Dick Jauron, Chuck Mercene, Ron Darling, and Rich Diana. He still feels that the best player he has ever played with is Bill Lee.
Carm scored his first hole-in-one in 1965 while playing the fifth hole with Al Wilson. He scored his second in 2004 on the ninth hole while playing with George Crowley, Ken Mackenzie and John Godley. Carm also played in many celebrity tournaments around the country, but he says that he never found a course better than Yale. When he retired from football coaching he took his first and last golf lesson—from Peter Pulaski. Now Carm plays once a week here at Yale and twice a week during the winter in Florida.
TERRY CALABRESE
TERRY CALABRESE
Secretary to Widdy Neale
Interviewed on October 12, 2004
Interview (1 hr 5 mins)
Ms. Calabrese offered a number of recollections of Widdy Neale, who had come to Yale from West Virginia and graduated in 1926. Went to work for Yale in 1931 as business manager of athletic dept. until he retired in 1969. He started inter-mural athletic program. One of his duties was to manage the golf course. He continued that duty after he retired until 1979. He was Sec. of CSGA from 1969-85 (died). She was his secretary from 1960-79 at Yale and at CSGA until 1985. Al Wilson was soccer & golf coach (not pro golfer) and replaced by David Paterson in 1975. 1931 1 st CSGA Open held at Yale and 50 th in 1981. Neale “convinced” William Beinecke to give money for in-ground watering system and cart and cart paths, later for new clubhouse. In 1976 the 9th hole was named for Widdy. The 1st Widdy Neale Tournament, organized by the Eli Club in 1979, attracted 350 players. The CSGA 4-ball is now called the Widdy Neale Tournament. She related the story, told her by Widdy, of Dr. Hugh Dwyer playing 36 holes the day before his left arm was amputated as treatment for cancer. Several years later playing with one arm he had hole-in-one on the 9th. She had memories of several assistant pros to David Paterson: Jim Streckfus, Lloyd Mattie, and John Wilson. She had a newspaper article mentioning play at Yale by Bobby Jones, Tommy Armour, Doug Ford, Prescott Bush, Pat Boone, Robert Goulet.
Widdy was married with one child (Bill, now deceased) and 2 adopted grandchildren. His brother “Greasy” coached freshman football with Gerald Ford (law student) as an assistant. Greasy played professional football for Phila. Eagles and coached U. of W.Va.
CHARLES “ED” BROCKNER
CHARLES “ED” BROCKNER
Class of 2001, member of golf team 1997-2001.
Interviewed by John Godley and Bill Kelly at the Yale Golf Course on July 9, 2006.
Interview (1 hr 10 mins)
Ed Brockner grew up in Dix Hills Long Island. Just down the street from his house was a 9-hole, par 30 golf course with a greens fee of $1. His father [a non-golfer] began dropping him off there at age 7. By age 9 he was playing the town’s 18-hole course for $5. At 13 he started playing Black Course at Beth Page State Park, where his best score was 67. He played 6 years for his high school team [he was able to join in the 7th grade] and was an all-conference selection for 5 years. At graduation he was a +2 handicap.
Ed first became interested in Yale at age 13. He arrived at Beth Page Black as usual, but was told that the course was closed, while the Ivy League Championship was being contested. When he saw the scores that were being posted were no better than his own, he realized that the Ivies might be for him. Several years later his father read an article about the Yale Golf Course and suggested that Ed check it out on his way to a junior tournament in Rhode Island. He “had never seen anything like it” [Yale GC]. He played a round, shot 74 from the championship tees, and left the score card and a note for Coach Paterson.
At Yale he played all 4 years and won a tournament as a freshman. He appreciated the fact that even though golf is an individual sport, Yale had a team of 20 players. More than ½ of the team members knew that they would not travel to tournaments, but they still participated in all the activities at the course. The spring trips were unique, especially in his junior year when they went to the British Isles. Highlights were playing with members of Black Heath and Muirfield and against the St. Andrews team at The New Course and Glasgow University at Prestwick.
Ed was a history major at Yale. He studied the Yale course and its history and wrote his senior essay on golf history in America. He then went to Florida State University to obtain a master degree in sports management. He earned his fellowship there by tutoring academically “at risk” FSU athletes.
In 2003 he returned to Yale as a volunteer assistant golf coach. He met the noted golf course architect Gil Hanse at the golf association annual dinner and started working for him in Rochester as an on-site construction project manager. He had become interested in The First Tee program for junior golf development. Through his contacts in the Metropolitan Golf Association [NY] he found a job as construction manager and fund raiser for First Tee and the city of NY at Moshilu Golf Course in the Bronx and now for a project in Newark NJ.
Ed’s long term goal is to become a golf course designer and builder. He would be only the 7th Yale graduate in the last 100 years to follow that course. His first project may be building a course on an abandoned military base and developing a First Tee program in Puerto Rico.
GARY BENEROFE
GARY BENEROFE
Class of 1999, member of the Yale Men’s Golf Team, 1995-1999 (Team captain, 1998-1999)
The interview was conducted on June 28, 2006 by John Godley by telephone. Gary was talking from his car as he drove to work in Los Angeles.
Benerofe played golf for Rye Country Day School in Westchester County N.Y., and was prepared to attend either Duke or the University of Michigan, when Coach Paterson called. Gary doesn’t know how David Paterson came to call him, but he did accept his invitation to visit Yale. “A raucous weekend with the golf team’ and he was “sold on attending Yale”.
In his first year the team had 10 players, of which half were freshmen. By his senior year recruiting had been so successful [partly because of the team’s success] that there were 25-30 on the roster. This large number meant that each practice round was very competitive and “grueling”, but the result was a stronger team.
He believes that the total Yale golf experience helped to “teach you who you really are…and where you are as a person.” As a senior he was elected Captain. He received the second largest number of votes. Scott Brinker [Captain as a junior and Gary’s roommate] had received the highest number of votes, but he requested that the person [he didn’t know who it was] who received the next highest vote total be named Captain, so that someone else could have the great experience.
Gary characterized his Yale education as “fantastic” with the best part just “being among the student body”. He was an economics major, with an interest in architecture and history. After graduation he worked for Lehman Brothers for 3 years in San Francisco. When the “Internet bubble burst” he moved to NYC and started two Indie rock bands. He played drums and sang. He also started a successful new record label. He then went to UCLA, where he received an MBA in 2005. He is now Manager of Digital Sales Development for EMI Records.
Gary now rarely plays golf, but he continues to value the role that Coach Paterson played in his life. “He was like a second father to me and many others”.
WILLIAM S. BEINECKE
WILLIAM S. BEINECKE
Yale benefactor
Interviewed on November 11, 2004
Interview (1 hr 10 mins)
William S. Beinecke graduated from the Yale class of 1936 and from Columbia Law school in 1940. He served in the US Navy from 1941-45 as an officer on destroyers in nine Pacific battles.
Mr. Beinecke learned to play golf at Baltusrol, and he played “quite a bit” of recreational golf while he was a student. However, he said that he wasn’t aware that the varsity team was winning national championships. At the time, the clubhouse was a “shack” with food service and a hot dog stand in the parking lot where the cart barn is today. He played JV football, which was coached by Gerald Ford (then a student in the Law School). During WWII, he played golf at Pearl Harbor in 1945 on the day of FDR’s funeral at the course where “Light Horse” Harry Cooper was the pro.
Mr. Beinecke became a major benefactor of Yale golf and its course. In 1965 he made a significant donation for an complete in-ground watering system. At the dedication, he played with Ellis Knowles, the 1907 US Amateur runner-up and intercollegiate champion. He also gave further funds for the acquisition of carts and the laying of cart paths. Widdy Neale once drove him down the precipitous hill path from the thirteenth-hole tee box, an experience that led Beinecke to help arrange a land swap with the water company to allow the safer present route. Then in 1979, he and his Prospect Hill Foundation made the donation for constructing the present Prospect Hill clubhouse. Back in the 1940’s, the “shack” that Beinecke remembered from his college years had been expanded to include a locker room and lunch counter. The Prospect Hill clubhouse was specifically designed around the fireplace from the original “shack.”
While on the board of trustees he was a defender of the course, but “never heard any talk of selling the course.” During the summer he plays at Eastward Ho in Chatham on Cape Cod where a portrait of Jess Sweetser hangs in the bar room. He played with Jess Sweetser and Watts Gunn in the 1960’s at the Cotton Bay Club on the island of Aleuthria. Sweetser was reprimanded by Gunn for his coarse language, saying “think of Bob up there in Atlanta not able to play golf anymore.” Watts Gunn and Bob Jones had been boyhood friends, and when they played in the final of the 1925 US Amateur it was the only time that members of the same club (East Lake) had done so. Now Beinecke plays in Father-Son Golf Association tournaments, and the Beineckes have twice been the three-generation champions. Dave Paterson started W. S. Beinecke Alumni Guest Tournament in his honor in the 1980’s.
TOM BECKETT
TOM BECKETT
Director of Athletics, Yale University
Interviewed on April 19, 2005 at Ray Tompkins House
Interview (23 mins), with introduction by John Godley (5 mins)
Introduction (John Godley)
Play has already begun this spring for the 111th year at Yale. For the last 79 years golf has been played at a university facility. From 1895 – 1912 Yale golfers played on rented land, north and south of where Albertus Magnus College is now located. Law Professor Theodore Woolsey and N.H. businessman Justin Hotchkiss had started the New Haven Golf Club, but it soon became the Yale Golf Club because Yale student play was so heavy that there were few tee times left for townies. So they picked up their Gutta’s and Haskel’s and built the New Haven Country Club in Hamden in 1899. Yale students were excluded from playing there.
Golf was not just played at The Golf Club, organized in 1896, it was played at the highest level. The Yale Golf Team’s first match was in November 1896. The Yale team won the first of its 21 intercollegiate championships in 1897, and John Reid Jr. won Yale’s first individual national college championship the next year. When Harry Vardon, the Open Champion, visited the course in 1900, he said that the greens were the “best in America.” But the owner of that land began selling it off, resulting in a course of only eight holes by 1912. So the university and a group of businessmen purchased land in Orange and built the Racebrook Country Club, which was opened in 1913. At Racebrook, 150 memberships were set aside for Yale students; their yearly membership fee was $20. Vardon returned in 1920 and he played an exhibition at Racebrook against the reigning national intercollegiate champion, Yale student Jess Sweetser. As golf increased in popularity, Racebrook added a second 18 in 1923. But even so, it was now the students that were having trouble getting tee times. Yale needed a course of its own.
The fact that an option on 160 acres of land next to Racebrook was purchased is proof of the university’s resolve to do just that. The option was not exercised, when Yale received as a gift the 700-acre Greist Estate from Mrs. Ray Tompkins. That is where the golf course was built and it opened this week in 1926.
The New Haven Golf Club, the New Haven Country Club and the Racebrook Country Club were all designed by Robert Pryde of Tayport Scotland . But for the Ray Tompkins Memorial site, Seth Raynor of Southampton, L.I. was chosen as architect, with his mentor C.B. Macdonald as consultant. In his 1928 autobiography Macdonald said, “Today Yale has a classical course which is unexcelled in comparison with any inland course in this country or in Europe.”
Since then there have been many improvements to the course: in-ground irrigation replaced the gravity fed watering system, golf carts were purchased and paths installed. No longer did a young caddie sleep in the ninth greenside bunker after a single loop on Saturday to be first in line to get in two loops on Sunday. The log cabin clubhouse was expanded and then replaced by a classic shingle style building designed by Herbert Neuman. Harry Meusel supervised the planting of hundreds of flowering shrubs and thousands of daffodil bulbs.
But, Harry also planted many evergreen trees that changed the character of several holes, took contours out of greens to “make them easier” and removed many bunkers that defined the character of those holes. Maintenance generally was allowed to slide.
Twenty years ago, Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw visited the course and was shocked by its condition. He immediately wrote to the Yale President decrying the neglect and abuse of the course and said, “how important it is to preserve such an architectural gem, not only for Yale, but for future generations of golfers.”
Nothing good happened for nine years, but then Tom Beckett arrived. After one year of assessment he set in motion a transformation of the golf course over the last decade.
Tom, we are anxious to hear how you became a golfer, how you came to Yale, how you managed this resurrection, and what you see for the future.
Tom Beckett:
Tom Beckett started playing golf after watching the San Francisco Giants baseball players (especially Willie Mays) hit balls at a driving range during their spring training. When he went to work at Stanford, he took lessons from the pro Larry O’Neil. He developed an “appreciation for the game and what a good course can do for a university community.”
When he came to Yale 11 years ago, he was shocked to find that the course he had heard so much about was “in such bad condition.” For a year he asked questions and studied. He found that the university was forcing the athletic department to “balance the books on the back of the golf course.” That was changed and an investment program in the course began along with the development of an alumni support base. It took the turnover of four superintendents in ten years before “we were blessed with a superstar.. miracle worker.. genius and visionary, Scott Ramsay.” What had been slowly coming together “then exploded,” resulting in a restored and beautiful course.
An endowment was created which will help ensure that these gains will not be lost. V.P. John Pepper, Scott & labor union leader John Proto have established the most successful labor-management environment in the university. And, he added, “the beauty of the course has empowered the workers.” All these elements came into play when we hosted the 2004 NCAA Eastern Regional tournament. It was a great success and the old style course stood to the best college players and their modern equipment. Only two of the final scores were under par. The winner Bill Haas was –2, whereas the other regional winners were –10 or more. Yale has been asked to bid for another Regional and possibly the National Championship. Other things for the future might be another nine holes, an expanded clubhouse, etc. He said finally, “along with the university and the alumni, I’m proud that my fingerprints are on the Yale golf course.”