Edmund Ault
Mill Quarter Plantation Golf Course Architect
1908 - 1989

Born: Washington DC, USA

Edmund Ault studied construction engineering at Columbia (MD) Technical Institute and for a time was employed in that field. He then trained for several seasons with golf architect Fred Findlay and entered private practice as a golf course designer in 1946. For several years in the late 1950s he partnered with club professional Al Jamison.

A onetime scratch golfer, Ault played in the National Amateur on several occasions. He served in the Green Section of the USGA, was a past president of the District of Columbia Golf Association and chaired the Design Standards Committee of the ASGCA. Long an advocate of flexibility in courses, Ault pioneered the systematic coordination of pin placements with tee marker locations.

A most prolific designer, Ed Ault once estimated that he had designed or remodeled one quarter of all the courses in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs around Washington D.C.

Excerpt from "The Architects of Golf" by Geoffery S. Cornish and Ronald E. Whitten (1993)