Bob Sandow

Bob Sandow was a golf course designer who lived in Hereford and served as club president of The Grove. He played as a touring professional in Canada and the USA alongside Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Byron Nelson, and represented Canada internationally. Sandow was director of golf to the Shah of Iran and designed more than 170 courses worldwide. In Herefordshire he designed The Grove, Belmont, the second nine at Leominster GC, and Summerhill at Hay-on-Wye. A Battle of Britain RAF flight lieutenant who won the DFC, he later gained a degree in horticulture and agronomy in Ontario. He worked with Robert Trent Jones and was convinced system-built nine-hole courses were the way forward for Pay As You Play golf.