Former Scottsdale Councilman Bill Walton, the visionary behind the Indian Bend Green Belt Wash who also helped develop the TPC and bring the Phoenix Open to it, passed away Nov. 3. He was 95.

Mr. Walton’s influence and community involvement was so significant across nearly three decades that the late Mayor Herb Drinkwater called him “an institution” at a 1992 party celebrating his retirement after two terms on Scottsdale City Council.

Mr. Walton moved to Scottsdale in 1963 "fresh out of Iowa State University and working as a landscape architect,” former city communications director Mike Phillips once recalled.

And it was at that time Mr. Walton launched the seed of a campaign that catapulted him into years of community service and gave Scottsdale a globally recognized landmark – the In

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