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Sven Nilsen

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Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« on: August 30, 2011, 03:45:36 PM »
As we become entrenched in the Golden Age, the list continues to grow.  What a decade.

Again, any notes on the courses listed or additions would be greatly appreciated.

Lancaster Country Club (1920) – William S. Flynn; David Gordon, William Gordon (1959)
Camargo Club (1921) – Seth Raynor
Shoreacres (1921) – Seth Raynor
Plainfield Country Club (1921) – Donald Ross
Sankaty Head Golf Club (1921) – H. Emerson Armstrong
Los Angeles Country Club (North) (1921) – Herbert Fowler; William P. Bell, George C. Thomas (1927))
Kirtland Country Club (1921) – Charles H. Alison
Olympia Fields Country Club (North) (1922) – Willie Park Jr.
Kittansett Club (1922) – Fred Hood, William S. Flynn
Canterbury Golf Club (1922) – Herbert Strong
Brookside Country Club (1922) – Donald Ross
Eastward Ho! (1922) – Herbert Fowler
Winged Foot Golf Club (West and East) (1923) – A. W. Tillinghast
Homestead Resort (Cascades) (1923) – William S. Flynn
Cherry Hills Country Club (1923) – William S. Flynn
Charlotte Country Club (1923) – Donald Ross, Ron Prichard (2008)
Country Club of Buffalo (1923) – Donald Ross
Monroe Golf Club (1923) – Donald Ross
Timber Point Club (1923) –Charles H. Alison
Burning Tree Club (1924) – Charles H. Alison
Oak Hill Country Club (East) (1924) – Donald Ross; George Fazio, Tom Fazio (1979) Fenway Golf Club (1924) – A. W. Tillinghast
Yeamans Hall Club (1925) – Seth Raynor
Whippoorwill Country Club (1925) – Donald Ross; Charles Banks (1929)
Fox Chapel Golf Club (1925) – Charles Banks, Seth Raynor
Creek Club (1925) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor
California Golf Club (1926) – A. Vernon Macan; Alister MacKenzie (1928); Kyle Phillips (2007)
The Course at Yale (1926) – Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor
Baltimore Country Club (East) (1926) – A.W. Tillinghast
Salem Country Club (1926) – Donald Ross
Quaker Ridge (1926) – A. W. Tillinghast
Franklin Hills Country Club (1926) – Donald Ross
Rolling Green Golf Club (1926) – Howard C. Toomey, William S. Flynn
Bel-Air (1926) – George C. Thomas, William P. Bell
Country Club of Buffalo (Buffalo Course) (1926) – Donald Ross
Fishers Island Golf Club (1926) – Seth Raynor, Charles Banks
Riviera Country Club (1927) – William P. Bell, George C. Thomas
Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club (1927) – Donald Ross
Huntingdon Valley Country Club (1927) – Howard C. Toomey, William S. Flynn
Bel-Air Country Club (1927) – William P. Bell, George C. Thomas
Taconic Golf Club (1927) – Wayne Stiles, John Van Kleek
Philadelphia Country Club (Spring Mill) (1927) – Howard C. Toomey, William S. Flynn
Northland Country Club (1927) – Donald Ross
Augusta Country Club (1927) – Donald Ross
Mill Road Farm (1927) – William S. Flynn
Moraine Country Club (1927) – Alex Campbell
Country Club of Detroit (1927) – Charles H. Alison
Cypress Point Club (1928) – Alister MacKenzie
Valley Club of Montecito (1928) – Robert Hunter, Alister MacKenzie
Aronimink Golf Club (1928) – Donald Ross
Medinah Country Club (No. 3) (1928) – Tom Bendelow, Roger Packard (1986), Rees Jones (2004)
Holston Hills Country Club (1928) – Donald Ross
Indianwood Country Club (Old) (1928) – William Connellan, Wilfred Reid
Lehigh Country Club (1928) – Howard C. Toomey, William S. Flynn
Eugene Country Club (1928) – H. Chandler Egan; Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1960)
The Country Club Pepper Pike (1928) – William S. Flynn; Brit Stenson (??)
Hackensack Golf Club (1928) – Charles Banks
Seminole Golf Club (1929) – Donald Ross
Congressional Country Club (Blue) (1929) – Devereux Emmet, Donald Ross (1930), Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1959), Rees Jones (1989)
Olympic Club (Lake) (1929) – Willie Watson, Sam Whiting
Pasatiempo Golf Club (1929) – Alister MacKenzie
Lawsonia Golf Club (Links) (1929) – William B. Langford, Theodore J. Moreau
Ridgewood Country Club (East/West) (1929) – A. W. Tillinghast
Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside) (1929) – Charles H. Alison; Joe Lee (1970), Tom Fazio (2000)

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Jud_T

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 04:40:33 PM »
Tamarack CC- 1929- Banks
Knollwood Club- 1925 Colt/Allison, Packard (1973), Foster (2010)
Spring Valley Country Club- 1927 Langford & Moreau
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Jud_T

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 05:54:40 PM »
ok point taken, but then what is the definition of historically significant?   holding an event? then that means, among others, that these are all significant:

Euclid
Kenwood
Oklahoma City Golf & CC
Jupiter Hills
Pumpkin Ridge
Pelham
Cedar Crest
The Park CC
Twin Hills
Plum Hollow
Norwood Hills
Big Spring
Miami Valley
Dallas Athletic Club
NCR
Kemper
Valhalla
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 06:01:03 PM »
There can be a lot of factors to determine the historic value of a given golf course.  For this exercise, I think it should be limited to the following:

1.  Notable due to its place in the history of golf architecture in America (i.e. early clubs, the first desert courses, mountain courses, paradigm shifters, etc.).
2.  Courses that represent the best of a particular architects work.
3.  Courses with social significance (the first public courses, first municipal courses, university owned courses, minority owned or built courses, etc.)
4.  Courses you could not leave out of a discussion regarding US GCA.
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Howard Riefs

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 06:25:01 PM »
Seaside (1929) -- Harry S. Colt and Charles Alison
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Pete Balzer

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 07:30:00 PM »
Moraine Country Club 1927- Alec Campbell
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Tim_Cronin

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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2011, 08:32:12 PM »
Mill Road Farm GC (Everett/Lake Forest, Ill.) (1927) William S. Flynn (NLE)
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jonathan_becker

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2011, 09:21:05 PM »
TCC Pepper Pike - Flynn 1928

Kirtland CC- Alison 1921
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Bill Brightly

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2011, 09:56:32 PM »
Fishers Island 1926- Raynor, finished by Banks after Raynor's death

Hackensack 1928- Banks first solo design
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Sven Nilsen

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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2011, 10:04:03 PM »
Quote from: Bill Brightly on August 30, 2011, 09:56:32 PM
Fishers Island 1926- Raynor, finished by Banks after Raynor's death

Hackensack 1928- Banks first solo design

Bill:

I have F.I. listed as 1917.  Not sure where this date came from, as a quick google search indicates the course opened in 1926.  Will be updated.
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Phil McDade

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2011, 12:30:39 AM »
Quote from: Shivas on August 30, 2011, 04:54:14 PM
Spring Valley?  I guess if it was originally built without bunkers, but since it wasn't, I'd love to hear the case for how this course is historically notable....

Jeez, at some point a golf course is just a golf course....


Spring Valley was planned for bunkers (Langford's designs and drawings are at the club in the basement), but I don't believe bunkers were ever built at that course.

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Bill Brightly

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Re: Historically Notable U.S. Courses by Decade - 1920 - 1929
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2011, 06:32:45 AM »
Quote from: Sven Nilsen on August 30, 2011, 10:04:03 PM
Quote from: Bill Brightly on August 30, 2011, 09:56:32 PM
Fishers Island 1926- Raynor, finished by Banks after Raynor's death

Hackensack 1928- Banks first solo design

Bill:

I have F.I. listed as 1917.  Not sure where this date came from, as a quick google search indicates the course opened in 1926.  Will be updated.


Sven,
First year of construction at FI was 1925, Raynor died in Jan 1926 and Banks finished the course.

What I find fascinating is the travel schedule that Raynor attempted...  He must have left Fishers Island in the fall of 1925, traveled (by train?) to Cypress where is did the routing, on to Hawaii, back to CA, then to Florida where he died of pneumonia.
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Tom MacWood

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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2011, 07:09:43 AM »
That is a hell of travel schedule...no wonder he got sick. I wonder if he actually made at trip to Hawaii.

Colt did not design anything in the States during this decade. CH Alison designed Burning Tree, Timber Point, CC of Detroit, Sea Island, and several more. I believe Milwaukee is a redesign of an older course.
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Phil McDade

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« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2011, 08:11:44 AM »
Quote from: Tom MacWood on August 31, 2011, 07:09:43 AM
That is a hell of travel schedule...no wonder he got sick. I wonder if he actually made at trip to Hawaii.

Colt did not design anything in the States during this decade. CH Alison designed Burning Tree, Timber Point, CC of Detroit, Sea Island, and several more. I believe Milwaukee is a redesign of an older course.

Milwaukee was re-designed by Alison after the second iteration of the course was done by Walter Travis in 1924. Alison's routing takes in many of the same hole corridors routed by Travis, who was brought in by the club to oversee the first design of the course, done by its own professional, Alex Robertson. (Courtesy Wexler, "Lost Links.")

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Sven Nilsen

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« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2011, 09:24:34 AM »
Quote from: Phil McDade on August 31, 2011, 08:11:44 AM
Quote from: Tom MacWood on August 31, 2011, 07:09:43 AM
That is a hell of travel schedule...no wonder he got sick. I wonder if he actually made at trip to Hawaii.

Colt did not design anything in the States during this decade. CH Alison designed Burning Tree, Timber Point, CC of Detroit, Sea Island, and several more. I believe Milwaukee is a redesign of an older course.

Milwaukee was re-designed by Alison after the second iteration of the course was done by Walter Travis in 1924. Alison's routing takes in many of the same hole corridors routed by Travis, who was brought in by the club to oversee the first design of the course, done by its own professional, Alex Robertson. (Courtesy Wexler, "Lost Links.")



Phil:

Any idea when Robertson laid out the first course?
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Tom MacWood

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« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2011, 09:34:32 AM »
1911
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Phil McDade

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« Reply #16 on: August 31, 2011, 09:43:40 AM »
Quote from: Tom MacWood on August 31, 2011, 09:34:32 AM
1911

The club was founded in 1894, and opened its first course somewhere else in the Milwaukee area two years later. It moved to its present location astride the Milwaukee River, north of the city proper, in 1911.

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Sven Nilsen

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« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2011, 12:28:10 PM »
Thanks for the updates on this list.  I've updated the first post.
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Will Lozier

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« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2011, 12:40:31 PM »
Springfield Country Club, Springfield, OH - D. Ross (1922)

Significant as it was an early favorite of Pete Dye and his father (just 10 minutes from his dad's own Urbana CC) and host to some early Ohio Am's that Nicklaus played in.  Architectural interest can be found in the 1st (an extraordinary opener), the skyline green at the 8th, the drop-shot 9th, an amazing two-tiered green at the 10th (high left-low right as opposed to the drab high back-low front version so overused), and the nearly 600-yard blind tee-shot 17th.  It is an excellent member's course which has seen it's greens reclaimed to their original sizes and some (not nearly enough) tree removal - and thus has earned the honor of holding a US Open Sectional Qualifier the last two years.  I am constantly surprised of SCC's lack of reputation as a Ross favorite.  Would love to hear of any GCAers who have played it.  For what it's worth, it is much more fun than Scioto, Brookside, or any central Ohio Ross layout. 
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Will Lozier

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« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2011, 12:58:29 PM »
Urbana CC (original 9 holes), Urbana, OH - P.B. Dye (1923)

Significant because it spawned the architectural interest of one Pete Dye.  Great use of severe land.
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Jeff Taylor

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« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2011, 01:02:46 PM »
Never mind
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« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2011, 04:21:20 PM »
The Meadow Club, California, A. Mackenzie 1927; Mike DeVries ??
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Bill Brightly

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« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2011, 07:14:38 PM »
Quote from: Tom MacWood on August 31, 2011, 07:09:43 AM
That is a hell of travel schedule...no wonder he got sick. I wonder if he actually made at trip to Hawaii.



Waialae opened in 1927, so I would think Raynor traveling there in late 1925 is a safe guess.
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Kyle Harris

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« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2011, 07:18:11 PM »
Penn State's White Course - 1922 (Willie Park, Jr.)

Most likely the first university-built golf course in the country.
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Anthony Butler

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« Reply #24 on: September 01, 2011, 01:29:35 PM »
Fenway Golf Club - 1927 (A.W. Tillinghast)
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