13th a few years ago.
I really can’t decide.
There was another old thread showing some early and hard to identify photo’s from the Addington.
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forums2/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=23232Can anyone figure out how to restore the link, something must have changed in the reconfiguration?
I think a really thorough search might find 4 or 5 distinct phases.
1
Opening day course. 1914 Apparently without bunkers?
2
By 1930’s evolution and the height of its fame - Abercromby’s development and detailing.
3
Post war Changes (including putting in the bridges?) by the Chairman who followed Aber.
4
Restoration of Aber's ideas. Jim Finnegan spoke in 1998 with Mrs Fownes, who had inherited the course in 1963. Showing him a map, with the Bridges on it, she told him this was necessary because of the misguided Chairman “he thought he knew more about golf course architecture than Aber and as a result undertook many revisions. I undid his changes and the course today is just as Aber made it.”
I believe Tom Doak also met her?
5
Clean up starting circa 2004.
When I see those old photos I Wonder how much Aber is still really there? He seems like a myth with so little documentation of what he actually built. There seems very little written about him.
This year at Deal I had a conversation with an old member of The Addington.
“Abercromby,” he boomed,” was an aristocrat, a wonderful man”. I asked him if he had played the New “No, it went after the war and I joined in 1951.”
Later I checked. Abercromby died in 1935.