Tacoma is heralded as the oldest private club west of the Mississippi. Founded in 1894 the present course was built in 1906. Walter Hagen played there regularly as the pro was a good friend. (The name slips my brain cell at this very moment).
They have held numerous USGA events, NCAA tournies, and a Washington Open or two.
Architect John Harbottle is a member there. With all of this history, a club employee tells me they do not know who designed the course. For all they know it could have been a local with some skill or the likes of Stanley Thomson.
Here are the questions:
1) Does anyone know who designed this course?
2) If no one knows, who were the likely architects working on the west coast in the early twentieth century?