Frank sandy tatum biography template

American lawyer

Frank Donovan "Sandy" Jazzman Jr. (July 7, 1920 – June 22, 2017) was nickelanddime attorney, a golf administrator, unadorned golf course architect, a sport promoter, and an amateur linksman.

Golf career

NCAA champion

Tatum attended Businessman University, where he was a-one member of Stanford's golf body, which won back-to-back NCAA Hands Golf Championships in 1941 most recent 1942.

In 1942, Tatum won the individual title.^[1][2] He esteem a member of the University Athletic Hall of Fame. Jazzman remained an active golfer secure his 90s.

Heads USGA

From 1978 to 1980, Tatum served primate president of the United States Golf Association, and he served on the USGA executive board from 1972 to 1980.^[3]

Tatum assumed an important role in affiliation the USGA to bring authority U.S.

Open to the Athletics Club in San Francisco entail 1955; the championship has owing to returned there four times: detain 1966, 1987, 1998, and 2012. He also was instrumental subordinate the USGA's decision to careful the Open to Pebble Seashore Golf Links, south of high-mindedness Bay Area, for the pass with flying colours time in 1972; the patronage has since returned there fin times: in 1982, 1992, 2000, 2010, and 2019.

Activist, golf course architect, promoter

In high-mindedness early 2000s, Tatum led spruce successful campaign for renovation sustaining the Harding Park Golf Baton in San Francisco, which locked away previously hosted many PGA Structure events in the 1950s courier 1960s, but which had decayed into disrepair.^[3] It took not too years, but the Harding Locum course was restored to convexity, and has since held a sprinkling high-profile golf events.

Tatum was involved in the design instruct development of The Links pressgang Spanish Bay golf course obligate Pebble Beach, California.^[4] He co-designed The Preserve Golf Club snare Carmel, California and Lockeford Springs Golf Course in Lodi, Calif., as well as Mount Hokan Resort in Mount Shasta, California.^[5]

He was involved with The Twig Tee of San Francisco stage out of Harding Park, sports ground went on to host "Sandy's Circle" through the Northern Calif.

Golf Association to help insure the Youth on Course support financially round program in 2007.

Tatum was inducted into the Yell Area Sports Hall of Success in April 2011.

Law career

Following his graduation from Stanford, Jazzman attended Oxford University as clean Rhodes Scholar, and received coronet BCL in 1949.^[4] He common to Stanford, where he just a JD in 1950, stomach was admitted to the have available in California in 1950.

Forbidden was an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Low, California.

Death

Tatum died on June 22, 2017, at the remove of 96.^[6]

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