Legends: Richard Tufts

1958-Pinehurst, NC- Portrait of Richard S. Tufts, Secretary of the U.S.G.A., President of Pinehurst, Inc., former president of the Carolina Golf Association, Chairman of the U.S.G.A. Junior Championship Committee, and a past member of the U.S.G.A. Rules Committee.

This scion of the family that owned Pinehurst dedicated his life to the game he loved Credit 18th-century Boston businessman James W. Tufts—who made a fortune inventing the automatic soda fountain—with two significant contributions to American golf. First, the creation of Pinehurst, widely acknowledged as the first golf resort, which he founded in 1895. Second, […]