Name Sandy Tatum Role Golfer | Education Stanford University | |
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Sandy tatum is a northern california golf legend rhodes scholar lawyer and harding park icon
Frank Donovan "Sandy" Tatum Jr. (July 7, 1920 – June 22, 2017) was an attorney, a golf administrator, a golf course architect, a golf promoter, and an amateur golfer.
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- Sandy tatum is a northern california golf legend rhodes scholar lawyer and harding park icon
- Legally speaking sandy tatum
- NCAA champion
- Heads USGA
- Activist golf course architect promoter
- Law career
- Death
- Writings
- References
Legally speaking sandy tatum
NCAA champion
Tatum attended Stanford University, where he was a member of Stanford's golf team, which won back-to-back NCAA Men's Golf Championships in 1941 and 1942. In 1942, Tatum won the individual title. He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. Tatum remained an active golfer into his 90s.
Heads USGA
From 1978 to 1980, Tatum served as president of the United States Golf Association, and he served on the USGA executive committee from 1972-1980.
Tatum played an important role in persuading the USGA to bring the U.S. Open to the Olympic Club in San Francisco in 1955; the championship has since returned there four times: in 1966, 1987, 1998, and 2011. He also was instrumental in the USGA's decision to take the Open to Pebble Beach Golf Links, south of the Bay Area, for the first time in 1972; the championship has since returned there four times: in 1982, 1992, 2000, and 2010; it will be played there for the sixth time in 2019.
Activist, golf course architect, promoter
In the early 2000s, Tatum led a successful campaign for renovation of the Harding Park Golf Club in San Francisco, which had previously hosted many PGA Tour events in the 1950s and 1960s, but which had fallen into disrepair. It took several years, but the Harding Park course was restored to prominence, and has since held several high-profile golf events.
Tatum was involved in the design and development of The Links at Spanish Bay golf course in Pebble Beach, California. He co-designed Lockeford Springs Golf Course in Lodi, California, as well as Mount Shasta Resort in Mount Shasta, California.
He was involved with The First Tee of San Francisco chapter out of Harding Park, and went on to host "Sandy's Circle" through the Northern California Golf Association to help fund the Youth on Course subsidized round program in 2007.
Tatum was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in April 2011.
Law career
Following his graduation from Stanford, Tatum attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and received his BCL in 1949. He returned to Stanford, where he earned a JD in 1950, and was admitted to the bar in California in 1950. He was an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Alto, California.
Death
Tatum died on June 22, 2017 at the age of 96.