A few courses of Tilly's in the area that were left off that list:
The ORIGINAL Bethpage Blue, site of the 1936 USGA Publinks with the Red & considered it every bit it's equal in those days. In fact, there were more exhibition matches played on the Blue Course in the 30's & 40's than any of the others.
Gone is Fresh Meadow... it only hosted the Open & the PGA, and the Norwood CC received much acclaim as well over in NJ & within the radius specified & the Jackson Heights CC.
I understand the Hempstead CC is a bit of a course as well as Saxon Woods, Rockaway HC, Sands Point, Scarsdale, Suneagles at Fort Monmouth
No Pat, there is no conspiracy; maybe just a lack of respect for men like Tilly & Flynn & Maxwell & so many others who ARE NOT IN GOLF'S HALL OF FAME!
Without these men who created the playing fields that allowed for and defined the greatness of men like Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Nelson, Snead, Hogan, Palmer, Nicklaus, Player & Eldrick Woods being honored within its walls it will remain a Hall of Shame.
There is absolutely no reason or excuse that these men should have gone unhonored for so long, especially since many of them, as in the case of Tilly, had already passed on BEFORE the Hall was ever opened.
That they aren't in is either a conspiracy of the type that pat sees or such an egregious oversight that is beyond explaining why it has yet to be corrected.
Time to step off of my soap box...