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Robert Mercer Deruntz:
This post has produced some interesting news offline. There are some key members at Glen Head who are trying to implement a restoration. There are a few things not worth restoring--the original 1st green and the original 3rd. I was on the phone today with a member who knows the course history very well. The original 1st green was located behind the 5th green and in front of the 2nd tee. Additionally, the 3rd green was somewhere up on the top of the hill where you can see the bunkers. The 4th tee was located somewhat in the vicicnity of the right fairway bunker. This hole was an angled par 3 with cliff depth bunkers on the front right side. An interesting comment was that at one time all greens could be seen from the clubhouse--this is a rolling hilled course. The topography really is awesome. I really believe that after some work that this course will receive a great architectural buzz.
wsmorrison:
RMD,
Can you please number the holes as seen in this GoogleEarth aerial?
In looking at a 1940 aerial, while there were few trees on the golf course and none that look planted, there was no way you could see all of the greens, especially looking towards the northern portion of the property. There are only a few significant changes between the course today and 1940. One hole was lengthened into a dogleg right par 5, one hole was turned into a dogleg to account for a driving range and it seems like an additional par 3 was added north and slightly east of the range tee.
wsmorrison:
A NY Times article dated January 26, 1922 indicates that the original name of the club was to be Glen Head Golf and Tennis Club announcing that Hollins changed the name to Women's National Golf and Tennis Club. The article later stated that Hollins was sailing to England to get ideas for laying out the club with the assistance of Cecil Leitch. Devereux Emmet was named the golf architect who, "...will lay out the links along the lines proposed by Miss Hollins and her associates."
A November 21, 1922 article discusses the assistance of CBM and Raynor along with the hole yardages planned: 390, 400, 320,185,370,130,365,400,360 (2920);420,325,365,210,410,340,165,375,270 (2860).
Robert Mercer Deruntz:
Order of holes:
1. Bottom right, adjoining the practice range
2. Bottom goiing right to left
3. Bottom left tee going up entire left side of picture
4. Interior right of #3 going parallel to #3
5. Above #2 going parallel towards 1st hole
6. Parallel right of #1 going towards clubhouse
7. Par 3 running parallel to #6 across the lake
8. Running up the picture between #4 and #7 and then
doglegging left
9. Running to back of clubhouse
10. Middle left side of road running up picture
11. Top of picture, running left to right
12. Par 3 running left of 11th green
13. Dogleg left up hill
14. Straightaway hole running towards condo development
15. Straightaway par 5 running parallel to #14 towards
road
16. Short par 3 at top of picture
17. Dogleg right running from behind 16th green to middle
left edge of picture
18. Running from behind 17th green above and parallel to
9th fairway ending in front of clubouse
wsmorrison:
Thanks, Robert. I spoke with Mitch Hantman offline and he clued me in. There's a fellow at the club, Marty Winkelman, that seems to have a good sense of the history. I contacted him and I'll see what turns up.
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