Alister Mackenzie 

Alister MacKenzie (born Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, 1870; died Santa Cruz, California, 1934) was a British golf course designer. MacKenzie was taught at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield. He trained as a doctor, and served in the Second Boer War. He then left medicine and began to design golf courses in the United Kingdom, in association with H.S. Colt. He was not a good golfer, and was one of the first men who had not been a leading player to become a prominent course designer.