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I don't think of Philip Nowlan, E.E. Doc Smith, E.R.B., Fritz Lieber or L. Ron Hubbard as part of the golden age of sci-fi, even though they had books/stories published during that time.
Before John Campbell, science fiction was sort of like westerns in space. Or vroom-socko stories of rocket packs and ray guns. That's what Nowlan, Smith, Burroughs and Hubbard wrote. I'm not saying I'm right in this. Just revealing my prejudices, I guess.
(I love Lieber. But when I think of him I think of Fafhrd and horror rather than science fiction, though I know he wrote some famous sci-fi.)
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