Aw tillinghast — golf traveller

Tillinghast was a golf journalist, author and poet. Over some 40 years, his articles, short stories and poems were published by numerous national and regional publications. Over his career, some number of his written pieces were syndicated and published in various U. He also authored two books of fictional golf tales and one short promotional pamphlet on golf course architecture.

Journalist, architect, pioneer – the story of Ohio-born Albert Warren Tillinghast is a fascinating one.

He started his writing career covering sports, cricket and golf for several Philadelphia newspapers. He saw and wrote about the development of his first course Shawnee, and the masterpieces of Pine Valley and Merion. Open champion Johnny McDermott. He had access to all the leaders of golf in America which gave him an inside perspective to write in his columns and essays.

The known courses he built for Tillinghast are Somerset Hills, St Albans, Essex Country Country Club, Norwood, Hermitage and Quaker Ridge.

He would continue to write feature articles for Golf Illustrated on a sporadic basis through the nineteen-twenties. The demands of his flourishing golf architecture practice may have kept him from writing more frequently during this period. However when he did write, his articles were feature pieces on varied topics on all things golf, from recent and historic tournament play to golf architecture and maintenance.

With the unset of the Great Depression and the decline in his golf architecture business, Tillinghast was writing again on a regular monthly basis for Golf Illustrated, and for a short period for The American Golfer. In June of , Tillinghast was named the Editor of Golf Illustrated, and would serve in that role until the magazine closed down in The last published issue of Golf Illustrated was in August , and the final issue dated September was never printed for circulated.

After being named the consulting golf course architect for the PGA of America in , Tillinghast contributed a feature monthly piece for The Professional Golfer of America. His last article for this magazine was in the November issue shortly after his PGA tour service had ended. He began writing a monthly column for this magazine in the February issue, and his last known article was in the February issue.