Malone (New York) Golf Club from "A History of the Malone Golf Club" (1987 / 2003). This is the original 18-hole routing.
Hole Nos. 1-8, 16 and 17 on this routing are still in play on the current East Course and remain virtually untouched, sans significant tree growth and still play as the same hole numbers.
Hole No. 9 now plays as No. 18 on the current West Course; No. 11 as current No. 1; No. 12 as current No. 9 West; No. 13 is currently No. 10 West, No. 14 is now No. 17 West.
Old No. 10 is still pretty much in tact, but is only used as a practice hole. Old No. 18's green is still there and is used as a practice chipping / putting green, but the bunkers have been taken out. Old No. 15 green still exists and sits at the rear of the current golf range and is used for instructional purposes, however, I believe a fair amount of green space has been lost.
And here's Malone's original routing (nine holes) at it's original location, slightly closer to the village where Franklin Academy now stands.
Thanks for posting the original layout Matt. The attributions of architect(s) for these courses (East and West have driven me nuts. The convoluted attributions on their website are a testament to ‘branding’: mention Donald Ross and Robert Trent Jones Sr. in the same breath with rather vague references to Albert Murray and Willard Wilkinson but then say the 36 hole layout is really RTJ Sr. But wait. Watch the ‘West Course’ video fly over and Albert Murray has 5 of his holes on the West course. Dazed and confused?
1. Architects of Golf, 1992, attribute the original 9 holes to Wilkinson (I know, they may be wrong).
2. Donald Ross. Where does he fit in? Nowhere, according the Donald Ross Society and personal communication with Brad Klein who said there is no evidence he is aware of Ross was ever in Malone.
3. Enter Golf Digest, June 1987, just around the opening of the Malone West course. They say the East Course “is essentially Murray with a couple of Jones holes”. I know rather vague again but wider interest in the study of golf architecture was just gaining interest with a larger audience at the time.
4. Enter Albert Murray (my grandfather, my bias acknowledged). Albert notes in his diary he renovated the original 9 and laid out 11 holes at Malone (East Course). Tragically, my grandmother threw out his architectural drawings when she moved a few years after he died (counselling for me helpful in this regard) so I have no more specific details but I do have a few construction photos of his time when he expanded the East Course to 18.
Then to top it off James R. Hansen in his, A Difficult Par: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the Making of Modern Golf said Wilkinson laid out 18 holes in 1939.