San Francisco, California
March 5th 1936
(Note; Yesterday’s Report was erroneously dated March 5th)
President of the P.G.A.
Dear Sir:
Today I drove to Ingleside at the Request of P.G.A. member William McEwan. His assistant, Harold Stone, is also P.G.A.
I made a complete inspection of the course of the San Francisco Golf Club, and inasmuch as planned this lay-out it may not seem entirely proper for me to praise it too much. But as it is regarded here as a truly great course, I will string along.
I was accompanied throughout the day by McEwan, Knox Maddox (President of the club) Dixwell Davenport (Chairman of the Green Committee) Frank Dolp (California Champion) Jim French Jr. (another clubmember and rated one of the best players in the state) and other officials. At noon, President Maddox presided at a fine luncheon, at which were additional club officials. Altogether it was a wonderful reception.
It must be mentioned that greenkeeper George Paulson accompanied us throughout the day, and I must compliment this man especially for the able manner in which all of my plans have been carried through, particularly the new first and second holes, as well as the new twelfth, which I designed when here last winter. Today I gave them a rearrangement of the trapping of the fairway of the fourteenth, which has been the only weakness of the course. The new plan will bring it up properly. While I made numerous suggestions for refinements on nearly every hole, they were of minor character and not at all expensive to accomplish.
Dixwell Davenport is also a member of the United State Golf Association’s Green Section and he told me that in a recent letter to national president, John G. Jackson, he told him that, in his opinion the P.G.A. had ‘put one over’ the U.S.G.A. in sponsoring the course services. Truly it was a day of wonderful compliments.
Very truly yours
A.W. Tillinghast