Sandy Tatum
American · 1920–2017
Frank Donovan "Sandy" Tatum Jr. won the 1942 NCAA individual championship on back-to-back national-title Stanford teams, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and practiced law in the Bay Area for decades while serving the game as USGA president (1978–79).
He is remembered above all as the man who saved Harding Park: finding the 1925 muni in disrepair — it served as a parking lot during the 1998 U.S. Open at Olympic — he rallied the city, the USGA and the PGA Tour behind the restoration completed in 2003, and chaired First Tee San Francisco, housed on Harding's Fleming 9. A bronze statue of Tatum stands at the course. His enduring line, from the 1974 "Massacre at Winged Foot": "We are not trying to humiliate the best golfers in the world. We are simply trying to identify who they are."
2 Courses
Courses in our directory designed or renovated by Sandy Tatum.
