Calling for Research Volunteers: Golf Architect Family Tree

Picking up the thread that started here, I want to kick off a formal community lead project to map out the definitive golf architecture lineage tree.

You know how football nerds love tracing NFL head coaching trees? How everyone is a Bill Walsh guy or a Bill Parcells guy, and you can draw a line from one coach to half the league? Golf architecture has the same thing, maybe better, and we're going to build the coolest, most comprehensive version of it that exists. But I need your help.

I'll build out (I've actually already most built it out 😉) the front-end and back-end to display and manage the data. And in return I'm asking for help from the FEGC community to do the fun part: the research.

Here's what I need:

Architect bios — a sentence or two (or more if you're feeling it) on who each person was, what they're known for, and what made their work distinctive. Nothing encyclopedic, just enough to anchor readers in who the architect was.

Relationships — this is the core of the project. Things like:

• Was an associate/employee of X
• Was a partner of Y
• Collaborated with Z

If you're interested let me know and I'll throw a meeting on the books for later this week to chat about what I'd need to make this happen and how you can contribute.

Who's in?