Garden City Golf Club, Deepdale, National Golf Links of America, Pine Valley, Seminole, Royal Portrush. As his fortunes rose as managing partner of the investment banking firm of Sandler O,Neill & Partners in Manhattan, Dunne played all the best courses on a regular basis. He traveled around the world to play the top 100 courses on the Golf Magazine list. Over the next 30 years Jimmy Dunne went everywhere to play golf. How could a 16-year-old who had never played golf anywhere off Long Island make such a statement? How could someone who had never been to Scotland or Ireland or anywhere say this was the greatest? "There's no way there's a better golf course anywhere," proffered Dunne in his burgeoning baritone.
"I'd say about $600."Īt the end of their first rounds at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, which had been arranged by a member whose house they had painted, Dunne announced that Shinnecock Hills was the greatest golf course in the world. "Well, do we get to play the course, too?" replied Dunne. Looking at the elegant shingle-style clubhouse on the hill, Chris Quackenbush had a pragmatic question for his buddy Jimmy Dunne:"How much do you think we would charge to paint the clubhouse?" said Quackenbush. They had said little to each other for most of the round, unusual for two kids who generally talked each other's ears off. In a June afternoon in 1972, two teenage house painters arrived at the 18th tee.
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