Tom Winton’s Golf Career — From a Family of Club Makers to Golf Course Design

The Golden Age of golf course architecture is synonymous with names like A.W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross, Alister MacKenzie, Seth Raynor, and Willie Park, Jr., who created nearly 1,000 courses in their collective lifetimes. But between 1916 and 1930, the total number of golf courses built in the United States alone exceeded 5,000 tracks, which means a lot more architects made a living during the Golden Age. One of the guys who doesn’t get a lot of recognition — but seemed to be in the middle of it all — was Tom Winton.