Alister Mackenzie was also an associate of Harry Colt
Alister Mackenzie was also an associate of Harry Colt and is recognized as one of the most influential golf course architects of that era, mainly due to his superb work outside Europe, particularly in Australia and North America. Mackenzie’s brilliance is best known at courses such as Royal Melbourne, Cypress Point and Augusta National but his lasting legacy was in listing the essential features for the design of the ideal golf course which still form the basis of good golf course design today.
The other dominant designer of the first quarter of the 20th Century was Donald Ross who, like Mackenzie, was of Scottish origin and worked almost exclusively in North America. Heavily influenced by his knowledge of St. Andrews and particularly his home club at Dornoch, Ross was a dedicated exponent of strategic golf course design. Of the hundreds of courses that carry Ross’s name perhaps the best known are Pinehurst (No. 2) and Seminole.
In 1922, J.H.Taylor, like Braid a five times Open Champion, went into partnership with Fred Hawtree and produced many golf courses in the United Kingdom as well as several in Europe. Hawtree was a great exponent of creating public golf courses but his legacy was to start a family business that continues, after three generations, to practice golf course design today.