MacRaynor is  portmanteau  of "C.B. Macdonald" and "Seth Raynor." Called the "Evangelist of Golf," C.B. Macdonald is the father of American golf course architecture. The contribution of his seminal creation - National Golf Links of America - on generations of architects that followed cannot be understated. Neither can the contributions of the second half our duo - Seth Raynor. Raynor studied engineering at Princeton and his skills as a surveyor made him an unparalleled router of golf courses. The two employed Macdonald's concept of "ideal holes" (which we shorthandedly call "Template Holes") modeled on the great golf holes of the British Isles. From time to time, we will also profile the work of a third member of their team (Charles Banks) who served as Raynor's construction foreman and later became an architect in his own right employing the same template holes concepts, albeit with a degree of success we feel is less meritorious than Macdonald and Raynor.