Pat:
Here's the line of conversation which you seem to have lost track of:
First came the trains, so they built golf courses close to the train lines.
Then came the cars, so they were able to build golf courses in spots that previously would have been very difficult to get to (this is what Sean meant by "backwoods," and its not my fault you didn't comprehend that).
Five miles out of town in the 20's was very much the boonies. This was pre-suburban sprawl, and at a time when a 5 Mile car ride might take you as long as a 20 or 30 mile drive today.
Your Beverly Hills analogy is idiotic and has nothing to do with the point I was making, which was simply that if a course was accessible by rail the 1926 guide notes that fact (by accessible I mean you could take the train and walk to the course from the depot). Thus, if the only method of access noted was by automobile, the course was nowhere near a rail line.
Also, I am fully aware that the Delaware & Hudson Map was a train map, and said so in my post. Please work on your own reading comprehension.
David:
I believe the Map is from the 1916 Guide, I'll double check some time soon. As for Round Lake, there was a nine hole course established around the turn of the century called Round Lake GC.
All the best,
Sven