Education
Stanford Law School.
Stanford Law School.
Tatum has remained an active golfer into his 90s. From 1978 to 1980, Tatum served as president of the United States Golf Association and served on the United States Golf Association executive committee from 1972-1980. In the early 2000s, Tatum led a successful campaign for renovation of the Harding Park Golf Club in San Francisco, which had previously hosted numerous Professional Golf Association events but which had fallen into disrepair.
He was also involved in the design and development of The Links at Spanish Bay golf course in Pebble Beach, California, and co-designed Lockeford Springs Golf Course in Lodi, California and Mount Shasta Resort in Mount Shasta, California.
Tatum was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in April 2011. Following his graduation from Stanford, Tatum attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and received his Bachelor of Civil Law in 1949.
He returned to Stanford where he earned a Juris Doctor in 1950 and was admitted to the bar in California in 1950 and is an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Alto, California.
He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.
