Recently I had the good fortune to play Lebanon Country Club in Lebanon County, PA with fellow GCAer Mike Trenham and now saner Mike Cirba. It is a private club that opened 9 holes I believe in 1920, then a second nine was added in 1931. Both were designed by Alex Findlay. I've played a handful courses of his and was very anxious to see LCC. I don't know the details of the architectural evolution of the course, but I do know Forse and Nagle have been consulting architects there for years. Perhaps Jim can weigh in here.
BTW, Ron Forse's first solo course, Royal Oaks, is a public course across the street from LCC and makes for a nice warm-up round before LCC. TomD gave Royal Oaks a 3 in the Confidential Guide; no mention was made of Lebanon CC and I think he might have found it very interesting (did you visit it Tom when you saw RO?).
I thought I would present one of many really neat holes at Lebanon, and the 11th was probably my favorite. I call it the "Findlay Alps". Coincidentally, the 11th hole at the nearby Reading CC I also call a Findlay alps hole, but it is a hard dogleg left, with a big rocky mound blocking the view of the green.
The Lebanon alps hole is an uphill drive on a 407 yard par 4, then a typically completely blind second shot over the hill to a green maybe 125 yards from the crest. Here is a Google aerial of the hole:
The green is at top of the figure (the 10th green at the bottom right), with the tree-lined course boundary (OB) road on the left.
Tee shot view, where the fairway narrows at the crest (by the rock formations) to about 25 yards; my guess would be minimum the last bare tree of those along the right should be removed to improve the playability:
With leaves on the trees, the effective width may be much less than 25 yards.
A view as you begin the walk up the hill, not a steep grade, but constant:
I think removal of many of those trees along the right edge above would improve the hole; it is the number 1 stroke hole, and probably well deserved.
A view back to the tees (with the green of the nice par 5 10th in view):
If somebody is gutsy with the driver, a big drive with a little cut can scale the hill (about 280 yard carry) to leave a downhill approach shot:
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From just short of the green:
There are no sand bunkers on the hole, but plenty of humps and hollows and grass bunkers.
From short and right of the green:
From left of the green looking back up the hill; the front of the green kicks shots forward, so no front right pins here:
From near the back of the green:
From long and right of the built-up green:
After just one play this par 4 has become one of my favorites in the area. I'll do a complete photo tour of the course at some point in the future.