Ian,
To clear up a few things for YOU...
The earliest known writing by Tilly can be found in the December 1899 issue of Golf. It is titled "A visit to St. Andrews" and it goes into great detail about the trip he made there in 1898 and includes several photos taken by him, including the earliest known printing of his famous one of Old Tom Morris.
He first wrote under the pseudonym of "Hazard" in the November 1898 issue of American Golfer. Writing as “Hazard” in August 1910 he mentioned the progress being made at Shawnee. In November 1910 he wrote, “Mr. A.W. Tillinghast… has been very actively engaged in the development of the new course of the Shawnee Country Club.”
In May 1911 “Hazard” wrote “Mr. A.W. Tillinghast, who for the past year has devoted most of his time to the work on the new course of the Shawnee Country Club…”
Oh yes, lets not forget how in December 1912 that Tilly, writing as “Hazard” wrote, “in developing the 10th hole at Shawnee, Mr. A.W. Tillinghast the ARCHITECT OF THE COURSE…”
These are just a very few of the NUMEROUS times that Tilly directly wrote in print that HE DESIGNED SHAWNEE. There is not one single time where he credits Worthington with anything in this regard… not once.
There are those who mistakenly believe that the 1914 Country Club article is the most comprehensive one written about the design of the course… they are quite mistaken. One simply has to look at the original ADVERTISING BROCHURE put out by the club in 1911 just BEFORE it opened for play, which brochure was ALSO written by Tilly in his capacity as Club Secretary, to see that this is not so. You can see this on the Tillinghast Association website.
In this brochure he describes every single hole and even includes the only known drawing of the original routing. The course is 6,011 yards at opening. Now take a look again at the Country Club article and one will see two figures given for the course length. One is what it then measured in 1914 while the other is what it measured AFTER some changes in 1912. It doesn’t speak to the ORIGINAL DESIGN in any great detail.
In addition, there were numerous other articles written by Tilly and others that gave tremendous details about the course and individual holes BEFORE this Country Club article that were also greater in detail than that one.
Of course, ALL of the above has already been posted on this discussion but, then again, why should someone “who has no idea” who designed Shawnee and states he is interested in finding the truth out have bothered to have read those details?