Syracuse Yacht Club (name changes to Lake Shore Yacht CC) with aerial 1938

[Sean_Tully]

Trying to help out a friend who is digging up info on his course. The course was designed in 1928.

This is what he has already...

The original architects were John Johnson and Paul
Taylor.  I can't find much info on them but I think
they may have been members and local golf pro's.  The
club was originally called the Syracuse Yacht club and
then changed to the Lake Shore in the 50's.

Willard Wilkinson did some work in 1942 in preparation for the NYS Women'sAM.  

The aerial is from 1938, does anybody recognize any design features that can be linked to a specific architect?

[Sébastien Dhaussy]

Just some ideas after watching the aerial :

Green bunkering is pretty repetitive. Is it safe to say that the architect was proponent of the aerial game ?

[Chris_Blakely]

Sean,

Emmet did a lot of work in upstate New York.

Some of the cross bunkering and false front bunkering short of the greens remindes me of some of his work at Salisbury CC.

If the course was built in 1928, it would fit that timeframe.

Chris

[Robert Emmons]

Chris, I thought it looked like Emmet also...RHE

[Chris_Blakely]

Robert,

I have also seen several of his par 3's that are similarly bunkered to the one in the bottom (southern) portion of the property.

Chris

[RJ_Daley]

Which architect was associated with the term, "string of pearls"?  I suspect the term was in one of the Tillinghast Society trilogy.  But, I can't recall off hand.  I'm not suggesting it is Tillie, just that there are two sting of pearls, with others that are half strings...

[Chris_Blakely]

The aerial appears to have two different kinds of bunkering:  there are the pearly bunkers around many of the greens (but not the par 3 in the bottom middle) and not around the green across the road at the top.  Also some of the cross bunkers appear to be not as bulby / pearly.  The bunkering around the greens / positioning of cross bunkers coupled with the course location makes me think Emmet.

Could the course have been touched by Tillinghast on his trips around the country for the PGA while trying to put his 2 cents on as many courses as he could?  Yes.