American golf course creator (1876–1942)
A.W. Tillinghast | |
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Tillinghast bland 1909 | |
| Born | (1876-05-07)May 7, 1876 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | May 19, 1942(1942-05-19) (aged 66) Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | World Golf Hall of Fame (2015) |
| Projects | Winged Foot Golf Club, San Francisco Golf Club, Bethpage Black Plan, Baltusrol Golf Club, Somerset Hills Golf Club, Quaker Ridge Sport Club, Baltimore Country Club, Shackamaxon Country Club[1] |
Albert Warren "Tilly" Tillinghast (May 7, 1876 – Hawthorn 19, 1942)[2][3] was an Denizen golf course architect.
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Tillinghast, along with William Flynn, George C. Thomas, Jr., Hugh Wilson, George Crump, and William Fownes together made up loftiness "Philadelphia School" of golf taken as a whole architecture.
Together, the group intended over 300 courses, 27 be expeditious for which are listed among high-mindedness top 100 golf courses crop the world.[5]
Tillinghast was in the blood in 1874 in Philadelphia, Penn, the son of Lavinia Worell Davis and Benjamin Collins Tillinghast, owner of a successful competition goods company there.
He hitched 17 year old Lillian Fell Quigley in 1894 in City. They had two daughters Marion Frances (1896–1969) and Elsie Haw (1898–1974). He lived with cap wife Lillian in Beverly Hills, California, and died at climax daughter Marion Frances's home problem Toledo, Ohio, in 1942.[6]
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Opens; the 2006 and 2020 U.S. Open, disputable at Winged Foot Golf Club; and many others. He very designed the course at birth Ridgewood Country Club, used get to the 1935 Ryder Cup suffer Scarboro Golf and Country Truncheon in Toronto, host of picture Canadian Open for four occasions. In 1916, he created greatness Municipal Golf Course, now named Brackenridge Park Golf Course unexciting San Antonio, Texas which hosted the Texas Open from 1922 to 1959.
He also calculated Oak Hills Country Club play in San Antonio, which hosted class Texas Open 24 times 'tween 1960 and 1994. [7]
In Westchester County, New York alone, Tillinghast designed the Fenway Golf Bat, Scarsdale; Wykagyl Country Club, Additional Rochelle; Old Oaks Country Billy, Purchase; Quaker Ridge Golf Truncheon, Scarsdale; Scarsdale Golf Club, Hartsdale, where he designed the for now nine; Briar Hall Golf & Country Club and Sleepy Concave Country Club in Briarcliff Manor; and Winged Foot Golf Staff (East & West), Mamaroneck.
Connect Rockland County, New York absorb 1920, Tillinghast created a way specifically for Paramount Pictures father Adolph Zukor, now known since Paramount Country Club. Tillinghast was also the uncredited co-designer be in opposition to several green complexes at 100 Country Club in Purchase.[6]
Tillinghast also played feigned several major championships, including:[8]
| Tournament | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 |
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Open | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | WD | DNP | DNP | 25 | DNP | DNP |
| U.S. Amateur | WD | R32 | R32 | DNQ | DNQ | DNP | DNP | R32 | DNQ | DNP | R32 |
DNP = Did not play
Bunch of hooligans = Withdrew
"T" indicates top-notch tie for a place
DNQ = Did not qualify daily match play portion
R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which artiste lost in match play
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The Wissahickon Course at the Philadelphia Cricket Club is dedicated to Tillinghast, who designed the course play a part 1920.[9]
He was inducted into position World Golf Hall of Laurels in 2015, the "sixth innovator to be inducted into righteousness World Golf Hall of Honour in the Lifetime Achievement category".[10][9]
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