Macbeth designed Wilshire in 1919, and it is his enduring monument in golf architecture. Not only a designer, Macbeth was also the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club Champion in 1896, 1897, 1898; the SCGA Amateur champion in 1911 and 1913; the NCGA Amateur champion in 1921; and served as president of the SCGA in 1929 and the CGA in 1938.