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Jim Sweeney

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2006, 12:35:06 PM »
1884 Oakhurst Links, WHite Sulpher Springs, WV
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John_Cullum

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2006, 12:43:32 PM »
Quote from: Carlyle Rood on April 05, 2006, 10:10:33 PM
I played Savannah Golf Club about a dozen years ago.  It was founded in 1794; but, I'm not sure when they built the course.  I see they hosted the 2nd Georgia State Amateur in 1917.  (I found these dates on the GSGA site obviously.)

Ironically, I moved to Savannah in January.  I haven't seen it since moving here, however.

Carlyle

The Ross routing at Savannah Golf Club was built around 1926 I believe.
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mikes1160

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2006, 12:45:00 PM »
Downers Grove Golf Club 1892 (the first Chicago Golf Club)
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Garland Bayley

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2006, 12:54:04 PM »
Quote from: Jason Topp on April 06, 2006, 11:30:33 AM
Waveland, Des Moines - dubbed as the oldest course West of the Mississippi.  I have seen a variety of dates, most of which are in the 1890's.
Sorry Jason,
Gearhart Golf Links, Gearhart, OR 1888.
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john_stiles

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2006, 12:56:49 PM »
Newport CC, Newport RI  1890-1895, various grounds

Palmetto GC, Aiken, SC  1892, and still played on the same grounds
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Brent Hutto

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2006, 01:03:24 PM »
Mine's got to be Palmetto, too.

John,

How similar is that little loop of holes near the clubhouse to what was there c. 1900 or so (or at least pre-MacKenzie consultation)?
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PCCraig

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2006, 01:14:56 PM »
My top three...but I could be wrong with the dates.

1)Chicago Golf, Weaton IL
2)Newport CC RI
3)Onwenstia CC Lake Forest IL 1895 or so---a CB design completly redone by Doak within the past 5-7 years.



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Tim_Cronin

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2006, 01:56:32 PM »
Downers Grove GC (Chicago Golf Club I) opened in 1892, but the current routing has little (if anything) to do with the 1892 version. The course was closed from 1897-98 and when it reopened as Belmont Golf Club, some of the land for the original course could no longer be leased. The new management leased/bought adjacent land and opened nine holes, three of them new.
Which ones? Good luck finding a diagram for the 1892 layout. The earliest available is from the early 1900s. Since then (especially in the last 15 years) the course has been renovated. The back-to-back par 3s are gone, for instance. Still fun to be there, though.
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2006, 03:37:46 PM »
Dutcher GC in Pawling, NY, about 70 miles north of NYC on rte. 22.
Built in 1888 or 1890 (take your pick) by John Dutcher, it's considered to be the oldest 9 hole public course in the US.  

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Ken Fry

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #34 on: April 06, 2006, 03:46:13 PM »
Another vote to Oakhurst Links in West Virginia.  Play it if you're anywhere in the area!

Ken
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Dave Bourgeois

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #35 on: April 06, 2006, 04:12:36 PM »
VanCortland Park in the Bronx which is listed as 1885.
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Glenn Spencer

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #36 on: April 06, 2006, 04:12:53 PM »
Garden City 1899
Huntington Country Club 1910
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SPDB

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #37 on: April 06, 2006, 04:30:41 PM »
The Country Club - at least the 7th hole still remains from 1893.
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Phelps Morris

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #38 on: April 06, 2006, 05:07:52 PM »
Quote from: Joe Hancock on April 05, 2006, 09:58:15 PM
As with many things historic, the dates may be debatable, but both Kent CC (Michigan) and Cape Fear CC (NC) were "established" in 1896. If I've played anything older, I don't recall.

Joe

Joe,

Kent dates back to 1896, however, the current Ross course was built after that (teens or twenties?)...The original course was in EGR by Fisk lake...

For me it would be the original Homestead course in VA


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Jeff_Brauer

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #39 on: April 06, 2006, 05:23:29 PM »
Quote from: Pat Craig on April 06, 2006, 01:14:56 PM
My top three...but I could be wrong with the dates.

1)Chicago Golf, Weaton IL
2)Newport CC RI
3)Onwenstia CC Lake Forest IL 1895 or so---a CB design completly redone by Doak within the past 5-7 years.





No's 1 and 3 are on my list.  I recall Onwenstia growing out of a 3 hole course in Lake Forest, laid out by McDonald, Foulis , Tweedie and Whigham on a senator's estate, but I never did know if the course was on the same grounds, or rebuilt later.
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hick

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #40 on: April 06, 2006, 06:55:42 PM »
Sharon Country Club , Ma (1898). This was nine holes until 2002, and is now twelve.
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wsmorrison

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #41 on: April 06, 2006, 07:01:16 PM »
"Sharon Country Club , Ma (1898). This was nine holes until 2002, and is now twelve."

Mat,

At this rate they ought to be up to 18 holes by 2210  ;)
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Gerry B

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #42 on: April 06, 2006, 09:05:31 PM »
oldest 2 that i have played in the US are Chicago GC and Myopia Hunt Club
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Tom Walsh

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #43 on: April 06, 2006, 09:07:20 PM »
all St. Louis--
Glen Echo 1901
Triple A Club 1902
Algonquin GC 1903
Normandie 1903

Cheers, Tom  ;D
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Steve Pozaric

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #44 on: April 06, 2006, 09:57:09 PM »
Quote from: TomWalsh on April 06, 2006, 09:07:20 PM
all St. Louis--
Glen Echo 1901
Triple A Club 1902
Algonquin GC 1903
Normandie 1903

Cheers, Tom  ;D

I have seen a few citations for Normandie being '01, so it would either be btw that or Triple A.  Lagging behind are the Log Cabin/Bogey Clubs at '09.
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Jim_Bick

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #45 on: April 06, 2006, 10:24:38 PM »
Ardsley CC, Ardsley-on-Hudson, NY 1895 (18 holes), about 80% original land.
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john_stiles

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #46 on: April 07, 2006, 08:33:47 AM »
Quote from: Brent Hutto on April 06, 2006, 01:03:24 PM
How similar is that little loop of holes near the clubhouse to what was there c. 1900 or so (or at least pre-MacKenzie consultation)?

Brent,

I am not sure. The original loop of 4 holes in 1892 was around the high ground, near the clubhouse  Designed by Thomas Hitchcock, a stick diagram indicates the present 16th hole, and something similar to present 18th were there based was on the property lines.  Then a revised 9 hole layout was completed by Leeds, Hitchcock, and future Palmetto Golf professional. Then between 1895 and 1897, Leeds and group expanded to 18 holes. Present clubhouse was designed by Stanford White and completed in 1902. Club history indicates Palmetto was 30th club to join the USGA in 1896.

John
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Tyler Kearns

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Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #47 on: April 07, 2006, 08:48:55 AM »
1890 Town & Country Club in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Certainly one of the more unique sequences of par that I have ever played, most notably the opening and closing stretches.

433 544 444 35
435 435 553 37
                       72

TK
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Mike_Cirba

Re:What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #48 on: April 07, 2006, 09:35:20 AM »
Quote from: Dave Bourgeois on April 06, 2006, 04:12:36 PM
VanCortland Park in the Bronx which is listed as 1885.

Dave,

VCP was established in 1985, with a first nine hole course by T. McClure Peters.  Tom Bendelow stretched it out and added another nine around the turn of the century.
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David Harshbarger

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Re: What is the oldest golf course you've played (in America)?
« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2011, 08:22:55 AM »
Dutchess CC in Poughkeepsie, NY 1897.
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