Golf Course Architecture - Issue 64, April 2021

40 TEE BOX FROM THE ARCHI VE Research by Jay Smith of JW Smith Golf for the forthcoming renovation of Hyde Park Golf Club in Jacksonville, Florida, has revealed that the course may not, as previously thought, be a Donald Ross design. Smith noticed that a 1926 plan of residential plots from The Jacksonville Historical Society labelled the club as Hyde Park Country Club Golf Course. “Once I revised my search term, an article appeared from The Miami News from May 1926, stating that Frank Thompson, Stanley’s brother and business partner, was ‘designing and building the Hyde Park Country Club Links’, which by any account meant his brother Stanley doing the actual routing and feature designs,” said Smith. Golf journalist Ron Whitten and golf course architects Ian Andrew and Jeff Jay Smith research points to Thompson as Hyde Park’s original architect