We once redesigned Pioneer Park Golf Course in Lincoln, Nebraska, which was credited to a William H. Tucker in 1932.
Promotional material of the day lists him as a leading architect. Whitten profiles him, and mentions connections to Wimbedon, Forest Hills Tennis Center, Yankee Stadium, for turfing, Chevy Chase in Md. and an early association as pro at the NY St. Andrews for clubmaking, and with Willie Dunn in golf construction in Europe.
The university of New Mexico course seems to be his biggest course, done near retirement. He had the flurry of activity around Lincoln , also designing Hillcrest and CC of Lincoln 1923-25.
Based on Whitten's list, he had an geographically diverse career, with courses in MD, CO, NB, NJ, NM, NY, VT, and Washington State. His sone had more in AZ, CA and NM. He is said to have designed over 120 courses, but Whittens list is not that extensive.
The Pioneer Course had a neat routing, which we kept intact, but was nothing special in green and tee features, yet pleasant. Lincoln CC was an early client of Pete Dye, who did a few greens there, and John LaFoy rebuilt all of them in the late 80's. Also, a good routing on tight property, but typical 20's greens.
One note of interest on the Pioneer Park Project - I have a Gutta or Bramble ball that was dug up during construction. I believe these were last made in 1900, meaning the player who lost that ball got at least 32 good years out the ball! He probably was still upset at losing a perfectly good ball!
