By the time A.W. Tillinghast finished the Wissahickon Course at Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1922, one of more than 250 courses he either built, rebuilt, or influenced, he was 46, and he’d lived a life worthy of the big screen.

Robert Trent Jones Jr., part of America’s most prolific golf architecture family, recently best explained the feeling of walking onto a course designed by A.W. Tillinghast: “It’s like you walk into Monet’s garden,