Architect
A.W. Tillinghast
A.W. Tillinghast (1874-1942) grew up in Philadelphia, learned the game during trips to St Andrews as a young man, and became one of America's most versatile Golden Age architects. He designed the two courses at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York and the Black and Red courses at Bethpage State Park on Long Island, both frequent major championship venues, along with San Francisco Golf Club and Baltusrol Golf Club's Lower and Upper courses. Tillinghast favored dramatic, heavily bunkered green complexes and demanded shot-making precision, often pairing heroic carries with generous landing areas. Later in his career he worked for the PGA of America assessing struggling Depression-era courses, a role well removed from his earlier prolific design output.
- Courses on BogeyMap
- 11
- States
- 7
- Avg LooperScore
- 76.9
- Highest rated
- Bethpage State Park - Black Course
Biography
A.W. Tillinghast (1874-1942) grew up in Philadelphia, learned the game during trips to St Andrews as a young man, and became one of America's most versatile Golden Age architects. He designed the two courses at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York and the Black and Red courses at Bethpage State Park on Long Island, both frequent major championship venues, along with San Francisco Golf Club and Baltusrol Golf Club's Lower and Upper courses. Tillinghast favored dramatic, heavily bunkered green complexes and demanded shot-making precision, often pairing heroic carries with generous landing areas. Later in his career he worked for the PGA of America assessing struggling Depression-era courses, a role well removed from his earlier prolific design output.
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