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Golf Course Architect
Seymour Dunn (born March 11, 1882 in North Berwick, Scotland; died January 1959 in Lake Placid, New York) was part of the celebrated Dunn family of golf professionals. He emigrated to the United States in 1907 and built a significant career as a golf course designer, teacher, club maker, and author.
His early work included a nine‑hole layout at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey as a teenager, followed by European projects such as Royal Ostend (1903), Royal Golf Club de Belgique (1906), Royal Zoute (1909), a Rothschild estate course in France, and a course for King Victor Emmanuel in Italy. , Dunn settled in Lake Placid, becoming golf professional at Lake Placid Club and launching a mail‑order golf equipment business and a large indoor golf school in Madison Square Garden.
He designed numerous courses in upstate New York, including the Craig Wood Golf & Country Club (formerly Lake Placid Golf & Country Club, 1925–26), Lake Placid Club Links (1909), Saranac Inn G&CC (expanded 1910), Ticonderoga, Locust Hill, Laurel CC in Mississippi, Tuscarora, and others. His instructional influence was widespread, and his book "Golf Fundamentals – Orthodoxy of Style" became highly influential among top professionals of his era.
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