I have searched long and hard for more information (especially
photographs
) of George O'Neil.
Later on in life, O'Neil seems to have been cared for by
Albert Lasker, and that Lasker might have his documents, and
other personal effects and mementos, etc. I purchased a
book concerning the life of Lasker called "After the flood", but that didn't really get me any info on O'Neil.
From my research, it seems that either O'Neil alone, or in
tandem with Tom Bendelow, designed the original course at
Beverly CC. Donald Ross came in in the mid-teens and
basically wrote up one of the first "Long-range master plans"
which the club implemented over a series of years. Ross
changed much of the routing, and we can be assured that
which we are playing today is Ross, but I would really like
to find out more about O'Neil.
In Beverly's history case reside two old clubs with O'Neils
stamp on them.