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    Frank “Sandy’ Tatum Jr. (July 7, 1920 – June 22, 2017) was an attorney, golf administrator, golf course architect, promoter, and an accomplished golfer. The Rhodes Scholar attended Stanford University where he was a member of Cypress Point Club and Stanford's golf team, winning the 1942 NCAA individual title and leading Stanford to team titles in 1941 and 1942. Tatum is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.

    He led the restoration of San Francisco's municipal Harding Park, now called TPC Harding Park, successfully restoring it to PGA standards and it has since held high-profile golf events. Tatum worked on the design and development of numerous California courses, including The Links at Spanish Bay golf course in Pebble Beach, as well as co-designed The Preserve Golf Club in Carmel, Lockeford Springs Golf Course, Lodi, and Mount Shasta Resort in Mount Shasta.

    Tatum supported and influenced young golfers as chairman of the First Tee of San Francisco chapter out of Harding Park and hosted "Sandy's Circle" to help fund the Youth on Course program through the Northern California Golf Association.

    In April 2011, Tatum was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.

    The commemorative Sandy Tatum statuary, created by Zenos and cast at the Laran Bronze Foundry in Chester, Pa., includes a seven-foot likeness of Tatum standing in front of two youths flanking a staircase, which represents The First Tee’s nine core values – Honesty, Integrity, Sportsmanship, Respect, Confidence, Responsibility, Perseverance, Courtesy, and Judgement.

    Monumental Sculpture
    Size: 7-feet High, 3 figure composition
    Media: Bronze
    Dedication: August 2020
    Location: TPC Harding Park, San Francisco

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    Back and better than ever

    • Ron WhittenOct 4, 2005, 11:51 AM ET

    Resurrection is probably too strong a term to describe what has happened at San Francisco's Harding Park. Yes, it's green, glistening and vibrant now, but the course was never exactly dead, though sometimes its turf was periodically choked out by hard ground, dense shade and aggressive weeds.

    But the term renovation doesn't do justice to the revamped Harding Park, either. And restoration isn't a correct description, since the greens, bunkers and turf conditions are far different, not to mention better, than ever before.

    No, the word I'd use to describe what has transpired at Harding Park is revival, both in the sense of its recovery from hard times and as an expression of the evangelistic fervor that has accompanied its recent improvements. The latter is thanks in large part to the Sage of San Francisco, Sandy Tatum, a former president of the U.S. Golf Association and 50-year resident of the city, who led the crusade to reclaim Harding Park from the clutches of apathy with equal parts pride and passion.

    I'll not detail the extraordinary efforts Tatum undertook to revive Harding Park. Jaime Diaz did a superb job of that in a recent Golf World feature, "Harding's Hero." But I will offer the observation that 83-year-old Tatum did not spend six years campaigning for Harding Park out of a sense of nostalgia. His focus was on the future, and not just the 2005 WGC-American Express Championship, awarded by the PGA Tour after it reneged on an earlier promise to hold the Tour Championship at Harding. Tatum is even more enthusiastic about the First Tee Chapter of San Francisco he helped establish at the course, about the special practice area specifically for First Tee participants and about the vastly improved par-30 Fleming 9 at Harding Park that will serve as a transitional course for First Tee graduates who find the game of golf genuinely compelling.

    After a recent 27 holes at Harding Park, I

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    Feature Interview with Sandy Tatum Part I
    August, 2008

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    You learned the game growing up in Los Angeles. What memories do you have from those days?

    I attended LA High in the 1930’s and interestingly enough we had a golf team. We had a vice principal who organized a team and we played a quirky little golf course in Orange County. He had a funky automobile that we used to travel there. I don’t remember if we ever played anybody but it was a lot of fun.

    My father was a very serious golfer and loved the game with a passion and that was the legacy he left me. He was a real estate broker, a member at Wilshire and a very early member of Bel Air. Bel-Air in its early years had very few members and he would take me there on Sundays when I was 6 years old and give me a couple of sawed off hickory shafted clubs and tell me not to get in anybody’s way and to wait in the car when I was tired. I ended up going to the car 6 or 8 times during the day. I thought it was swell way to spend a Sunday.

    My father was a very serious golfer and understood what the game meant to me so he made golf a reward for performance especially with respect to chores and so on. The ultimate reward he could give me was to organize a game with him and I could invite my friend and his father. Almost all these were at Wilshire CC.

    I played at Wilshire in my early teen years. Wilshire was designed brilliantly on a very small piece of property and the barranca factor on both nines was a really seriously important part of the experience. It’s unbelievable that they filled in that barranca.

    Wilshire is divided with the first nine on the west side and the clubhouse and back nine on the east side. I would bicycle out there after school and play games late in the day and have a match with two balls, one being Hagen’s and one being Bobby Jones. Wilshire was where I actually witnessed Jones in a match which was the only time I saw him play.

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