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Forrest Richardson

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"Billy" Johnston RIP at Age 95
« on: May 01, 2021, 12:06:39 PM »
https://www.pgatour.com/news/2021/04/26/two-time-pga-tour-winner-bill-johnston-dies-age-96.html


Bill Johnston passed away this last week. I worked with Bill very briefly on Lookout Mountain here in Phoenix. "Billy" was purely a field guy with no appetite for plans — or planning! None-the-less, he created some interesting courses and holes. We "argued" a bit over my original routing at Lookout — six each of 3s, 4s and 5s...I eventually lost and we created two par-4s in place of a 3 and a 5. I still regret losing...but I learned a lot in the process. I had little contact with Bill in the past few decades, yet he played regularly at the Arizona Biltmore where he lived for many years. I still have a yellow legal pad sheet (just one page) where he hand wrote the budget for Lookout Mountain...$720,000. It cost a bit more :) in the end.

— Forrest Richardson, Golf Course Architect/ASGCA
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