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Alister MacKenzie (Dr Alexander MacKenzie), was a Scottish family doctor and surgeon who abandoned medicine to work full-time on designing and redesigning dozens of golf courses all over the world. Some of the most famous are Cypress Point in California and with Bobby Jones, the Augusta National in Georgia, home of the US Masters, and Royal Melbourne in Australia.

Alister MacKenzie was a purist in golf course design and he would use all the natural benefits of the site he was working on. He strongly believed in retaining a natural appearance to a golf course, creating and shaping holes through the sand dunes and creating greens with subtle contours and movement rolling with the natural fall of the land.