Connor,
I realise I'm biased on this as a member at Hollinwell, and not sure its of interest to many outside of the local area, but Tom Williamson could make an interesting podcast?
Tom was the greenkeeper, club maker and professional at Notts Golf Club between 1896 and 1950. Soon after Willie Park Jnr had designed the clubs new course at Hollinwell in 1901, he worked firstly with JH Taylor and then on his own to make changes to the course, and is very much the architect of the course we play today.
https://golfclubatlas.com/countries/notts1/As an architect he was an early adopter of using Plasticine to model proposed golf greens, and he is said to have worked on every course within 50 miles of Nottingham, but isnt much known outside of this area. He did design a course in Switzerland, and was asked to make changes to Royal Dornoch shortly after the Second World War, but declined due to not wanting to travel that far at his age, so who knows how well known he could have become if he had?
https://www.hollinwell.co.uk/heritage/the-course-and-architects/ His first experience of golf as a young boy was seeing two Scotsman playing golf in a local park, well before the game was popular in England, and running after their ball to bring it back thinking he was doing a good deed! I believe he got quite a telling off for this! He started as a caddy and went on to work for the club for 54 years, played in every Open Championship between 1897 and 1947 (apart from the War years and one year when he was ill), is believed to be the first person to have numbered golf clubs, was a regular foursomes partner of the great Harry Vardon, hosted a match at Hollinwell playing against Walter Hagen, taught one of the best lady golfers of her era in Enid Wilson, and even fired a young Harold "Bodyline" Larwood as a caddy!
https://www.hollinwell.co.uk/heritage/tournaments-and-professionals/I spoke to our clubs archivist Nick Jones who has recently done much research into Tom Williamson and he would be happy to be interviewed for your podcast if you thought this was of interest? Cheers,James