The Stanley Thompson Society was founded in 1998 to research, record, and publicize the life and works of Stanley Thompson, one of the world's leading golf course architects whose main work spanned the 1920s to the early 1950s. He was one of five brothers who caddied at the Toronto Golf Club in the early years of the 20th century, and who became leading Canadian golfers in the 1920s. S. Thompson had done some golf course architecture before World War I. When he returned from the war as a lieutenant in the Canadian Field Artillery he formed Stanley Thompson & Company, a golf architectural company. Between 1920 and 1950 he designed, or remodelled, or constructed some 145 golf courses in Canada, United States, the Caribbean, and South America. Along with Donald Ross and Robert Trent Jones, in 1948, he founded the prestigious American Society of Golf Course Architects. S. Thompson was elected to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1980.
From the description of Official opening of the Stanley Thompson Society archival collection, Sept. 14, 2005. 2005. (University of Guelph). WorldCat record id: 629687058
