Who's who: Cecil K. Hutchison

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Who's who: Cecil K. Hutchison

  • Name:

    Major Cecil Key Hutchison
  • Country:

    England
  • Lived:

    [1877-1941]. Born on April 10, 1877 at 32 Lowndes Square, Belgravia, London. Died on March 25, 1941 in Horsell, Woking, Surrey (aged 64).
  • Original/Home Club:

  • Occupation:

    Golf course architect; army officer; accomplished amateur golfer.
  • Turned Pro:

    n/a

Golf course design

Hutchison's best known work includes, but is not limited to:

ENGLAND & SCOTLAND:
Ashridge, Herts (1932, with Stafford V. Hotckin & Sir Guy Campbell) / Carnoustie, Scot (1926, modifications to Championship course as assistant to James Braid) / Gleneagles, Scot (1919, Kings and Queens courses, as assistant to James Braid) / Kington GC, Herefordshire (1926) / North Berwick, Scot (1932, modifications with Ben Sayers Jr) / Pitlochry GC, Scot (1920s, modifications) / Tadmarton Heath, Oxon (1922) / Turnberry, Scot (1938, modifications to Ailsa course) / West Sussex GC, W Sussex (1931, with Hotckin & Campbell) / Woodhall Spa, Lincs (1920s, modifications with Hotchkin).

CONTINENTAL EUROPE:
Wimereux, Fra (1920s, with Guy Campbell).

Did you know?

Major Cecil K. Hutchison (1877-1941) was educated at Eton College, becoming an excellent cricketer and amateur golfer in the process. He represented Scotland at golf. In the 1909 Amateur Championship he lost by one hole to Robert Maxwell, who had beaten the great golf writer Bernard Darwin in one of the semi-finals. After Eton, Hutchison served with distinction in the Coldstream Guards, seeing active service in the Boer War. In World War One he became a PoW when his trench was overrun, and saw out the war from January 1915 until December 1918 in PoW camps in Germany and Switzerland.

Following the war Hutchison became one of a group of emerging designers led by the famous Willie Park Jr. The group included legendary course architects Alister MacKenzie, Harry Colt, James Braid, Herbert Fowler and Donald Ross. Hutchison had already worked with Braid at Gleneagles and Carnoustie, and later with Col. Stafford Vere Hotchkin to redesign Woodhall Spa.

Hotchkin and Hutchison were then joined by Sir Guy Campbell (also a major in the British Army) to form the renowned Ferigna company. The firm, which took its name from Hotchkin's revolutionary iron-based turf dressings and fertilisers, covered all aspects of golf courses, including design, construction, maintenance, equipment, turf dressing and seeding. With its three ex-military officers at the helm, Ferigna undertook the design and construction of several courses in the south of England ... most notably, West Sussex (1931) and Ashridge (1932).

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