Photo shows Albert Warren Tillinghast (A.W. Tillinghast) holding plans for the Davis Shores Country Club, St. Augustine, Fla., circa 1926. Photo is by Hamilton M. Wright. Copyright Unknown/Courtesy USGA Archives.
Newsprint attached to back of photo reads: “Six Golf Courses For Oldest City. St. Augustine, Fla., Plans World’s Winter Golf Center. The whole population of St. Augustine, Florida, has pledged itself to make that city the Winter Golf Center of the World and has taken steps to have six of the finest courses in the South, ready for devotees of the Royal Game. Photo shows A.W. Tillinghast, famous golf course architect of the Baltusrol course at Short Hills, N.J., and the Winged Foot Golf Course at Mamaroneck, N.Y., laying plans to have courses out of the forests on Anatasia Island for the Davis Shores Country Club. St. Augustine already has two 9-hole and one 18-hole courses. In addition two hotels for golfers and a golf apartment house will be built. The Florida East Coast Hotel Company are building a new course, 9-holes of which are already completed. The picture graphically shows the terrain on which the golf course architect evolves his plans. The coming winter season will see some of the greatest golf stars in competition there, according to officials of the city.”