Since Tom Paul can't remember The Links Golf Club in Manhasset (LI), NY (about 5 miles from Garden City GC), I'll fill in for him. I'm not as old as Tom, but I didn't start the pickling process until later in life so my memories of The Links are pretty clear although I didn't appreciate what I was seeing until after the course closed around 1982-85.
It's also the only course in Wexler's book that I'm old enough to have played.
TOTALLY ORIGINAL CB MACDONALD!! UNCHANGED SINCE EARLY 20'S CONSTRUCTION!! It was a wonderfully old fashioned layout that the Whitney family and a couple of their friends built. Never more than 50-75 members, the greens were slow (but wonderfully contoured) and the rough was minimal. It had all the holes - Biarritz, Road, etc. IMO, the best was a slightly uphill reverse Redan that was a full 190+ carry.
Two foursomes a day was a lot and you usually played through a foursome of caddies on a Saturday morning who (allegedly)waited for a loop by getting in a quick 18! All members had their own carts and personal caddies. It was a woinderfully anachronistic holdover from another era - the golden age of architecture meets Gatsby.
If it existed today, it would be the ultimate mecca for GCAers!
When it was sold to real estate developers after the last Whitneys (and William Paley) no longer played golf, there were some efforts made to purchase the property and keep it as a golf course but the $$$ offered by the ultimate purchasers were just too attractive. Ironically, if they sold today, the money from true golf enthusiasts could probably be raised in less than a week given the response to places like Nantucket, East Hampton, The Bridge, Vineyard, etc.
Timing is truly everything.