Even in death, golf's great architect Ross keeps an eye on Brookline — and a missed chance

While Scottish-born icon didn’t get to leave his famous imprint on The Country Club, his mark has been left on some of America's most iconic tracks

Where he lies: Golf architect Donald Ross is buried nearby Brookline's Country Club in the same cemetery as Edward "Stimpmeter" Stimpson. 

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Just a few miles as the crow flies from The Country Club, Donald Ross rests in peace at the bucolic Newton Cemetery and Arboretum. The Scottish-born father of American golf architecture, with more than 400 courses boasting his designs in the States, is buried with his wife, Janet, and was later joined by daughter, Lillian, and her husband, Richard Pippitt.

The Dornoch-born Ross moved to America to work first in Massachusetts at the turn of the 20th century and rode the wave of golf’s growing popularity in the U.S. that only grew after Francis Ouimet’s historic victory in the 1913 U.S. Open at The Country Club.