WILLIAM P. BELL & SON

completion of the North and South courses at Torrey Pines on that 100 acres.”

In total, the Bells designed or redesigned more than 300 courses in ten states, an astonishing number by any measure, one exceeded by only a handful of other practitioners, but that they did it in California was phenomenal.

William Park Bell was born in Canonsburg, Pa., 1886, and moved to California in 1911, when he served as caddie master at Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena and then greenskeeper at Pasadena Golf Club.

Billy Bell Sr. went on to serve as a construction superintendent for renowned golf course architects Willie