New Monuments TV welcomes you to today’s coverage of art appreciation on two golf courses. I am your host, the Golf Widow, joined by my old pal and yours, the Old Man.

Cheers, arts and golf fans.

He will cover the action at Kykuit in Pocantico Hills, the New York home of the Rockefeller family, now a national historic landmark, while I have the mic at Portola Country Club in Palm Desert, California. Supplying intel for the broadcast is our Statistician.

William Flynn’s work for the Rockefellers was ready for play in 1937. Cecil Hollingsworth designed Portola’s original nine holes in 1970, overseen by the Santa Rosa Mountains, whose highest point is Toro Peak at 8,717 feet above sea level.

Above me on the west terrace is Fritz Woruba’s 1960 «Reclining Figure», a simulacrum of the world’s largest lateral magma flow behind it, popularly known as the Palisades.

Nelson Rockefeller, 1908 to 1979, politician, philanthropist and grandson of John D. Rockefeller, 1839 to 1937, businessman, philanthropist and one of the richest people in modern history. Nelson placed «Reclining Figure».

Can we get a camera on it?

We don’t have permission. Negotiations are ongoing. In the meantime, I went through your photos in the cloud and quite liked the one of Moore & Lopier Construction Corporation and American Bridge Company’s Broadway Bridge (1963), which crosses the Harlem River Ship Canal. The Broadway, a structural steel lift span, is suspended at each corner by two sets of wire ropes. Each set contains 12 ropes that are draped over a main counterweight sheave located on top of the corresponding tower corner. The other ends of the wire ropes are connected to span counterweights. Two electrical drives—one in each tower—raise and lower the lift span. The Broadway also features four buffer cylinders mounted beneath the lift span—one in each corner—to cushion the shock of the lift span as it approaches either the open or closed position. The tops of the steel towers were tapered to be flush with the main span when it was lifted. The IRT No. 1 subway carried you across the bridge to Marble Hill, where you boarded the Metro-North Railroad to Philipse Manor, the point of departure for the shuttle bus to Pocantico Hills.

Without further ado, let’s begin our walks, evaluating as we go. In match play, the winner is the team ahead by more holes than remain to be played.

If I were a betting man, I could characterize Team Pocantico Hills as the prohibitive favorite. Will either side exercise its right to a score adjusted by a handicap? The Rockefellers were in the art game longer than Portola’s residents. We don’t want the broadcast to finish early.

According to reports from both locker rooms, the curators decline to factor in handicaps; and as both teams are at home, we will flip a coin to decide who goes first and who gets the last word.

I don’t have a coin.

Hole 1
Portola: «Palms|Falling Back|After Barthes» (2026, Greg Hohman, American).

Pocantico Hills: «Barbara» (1972, Benni Efrat, Israeli), «Knife Edge Two Piece» (1966, Henry Moore, English), «Akapotic Rose» (1965, Eduardo Paolozzi, British).

Hole 2
Portola: «Duck Bridge».

Pocantico Hills: «Large Spiny» (1966, Alexander Calder, American), «L’Erection Logologique Blue» (1967-69, Jean Dubuffet, French).

Hole 3
Portola: Honey, Stop the Car! (real estate enterprise).

Pocantico Hills: «Sky» (1963, Will Horwitt, American), «Fast Force» (1973-74, Will Horwitt), Sukiya-style Tea House (1962, Junzo Yoshimura, Japanese).

Hole 4
Portola: Santa Rosa Mountains.

Pocantico Hills: The Palisades/«Reclining Figure» (1960, Fritz Woruba, Austrian).

Hole 5
Portola: «The Sentinel» (2025-6, monthly newsletter, American/Canadian).

Pocantico Hills: «The House the Rockefellers Built» (2007, Robert F. Dalzell Jr. and Lee Baldwin Dalzell, American).

Hole 6
Portola: «Bombs Away, Canada!» (2026, Greg Hohman, American).

Pocantico Hills: «U-Turn» (1968, Clement Meadmore, Australian).

Hole 7
Portola: «Cookies» (2026, Canadian).

Pocantico Hills: «Double-Up» (1975, Clement Meadmore, Australian), «Five Lines in Parallel Planes II» (1968, George Rickey, American), Specimen Oak Tree.

Hole 8
Portola: «Tancredi’s Memorial Pitstop».

Pocantico Hills: Swimming Pool (1955, William H. Harrison, American).

Hole 9
Portola: «Eaux printanières».

Pocantico Hills: Pond.

Hole 10
Portola: «Pineapple Fountain» (Home Depot, unknown origin).

Pocantico Hills: Pond.

Hole 11
Portola: «Still Life with Free Oranges» (2026, Canadian).

Pocantico Hills: «Granny’s Knot» (1968, Shinkichi Tajiri, Japanese-American).

Hole 12
Portola: «Biscuit» (2026, Canine, American).

Pocantico Hills: «Lippincott II» (1966, James Rosati, American), «Cigarette» (1961, Tony Smith, American), «Fair Leda» (1968, Kenneth Snelson, American), «Me Viola» (1971, Willy Weber, Swiss).

Hole 13
Portola: «Winter Wonderland» (1960, postcard, American).

Pocantico Hills: «Winter Wonderland» (2026, drone, Russian).

Hole 14
Portola: Golf Course Design (1970, Cecil Hollingsworth, American).

Pocantico Hills: Golf Course Design (1937, William Flynn, American).

Hole 15
Portola: «Hippies Use Side Door» (eBay), «Hillbilly Putter» (eBay).

Pocantico Hills: Japanese Garden (1913-17, William W. Bosworth, American).

Hole 16
Portola: «Upside Down Tree, after Robert Smithson» (2025, Greg Hohman, American).

Pocantico Hills: The hole is conceded.

Hole 17
Portola: «Nevada».

Pocantico Hills: The hole is conceded.

Hole 18
Portola: Portola Players (age 55+ actors, American and Canadian).

Pocantico Hills: «Playhouse» (1927, Duncan Candler, American).

Hole 19
Portola: Clubhouse (1970, Cecil Hollingsworth, American).

Pocantico Hills: «Kykuit» (1913, Aldrich and Delano, American).

 
Dedicatees
People of Portola CC, Palm Desert, California