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willy jr

Can anybody answer the topic question??
How about the year of design?
I know its not the greatest course, but I have a reason for asking.
Thanks.

Brian Marion

Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2003, 10:14:07 PM »
According to one website

1917- Alex Findley


BTW, had my wedding reception there. Couldn't tell you what the course or facilities look like at all.

The bar was nice though.

Mike_Cirba

Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2003, 11:57:52 PM »
Brian;

Yes, Willy is correct.  

It was Alex Findlay in 1917, and it's a pretty cool old course with some very good par threes.  

willy jr

Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2003, 08:16:34 PM »
Thanks guys.

I have to admit, 1917 surprises me. I was expecting the '30's.

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2003, 09:40:18 PM »
Mike Cirba, What the Hell do you know!

Don't believe him guys. It was vintage 1974 Ted Robinson.

Do you want to know how you can tell?

See if the parking medians look anything like the golf course, that will prove me right!:)

Mike_Cirba

Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2003, 10:58:33 PM »
willy;

Why the 30s?   Course building dropped off precipitiously after the Stock Market Crash.  

Tommy;

Ok...I'll come clean.  Robinson it was!   ;D

Actually, do you know that I played the only Ted Robinson course on the east coast, a place formerly known as Tantallon CC in Maryland (it was his first design).  Ted had been a landscape architect who worked primarily with housing developments, and you'd probably not be surprised to hear that his first uninformed venture into course design actually came out better than many of his later efforts once he thought he understood what a golf course really should be.

Believe it or not, there's actually a par four with a completely blind approach shot to a green sitting tucked down in a natural dell.  There isn't a waterfall on the course, nor are there too many other incongruous or finicky features.

ahhh..the perils of a little knowledge.  ;)

Bill_McBride

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Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2003, 11:15:05 PM »
Mike Cirba, re Tantallon, not bad course, but wasn't there also a par 4 18th that was kind of a crazy second shot over a pond?  I'm pretty vague, it's been a long time.

Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Who Designed course at Cohanzick Country Club in Fairton, NJ?
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2003, 09:02:20 AM »
Mike, Are you trying to say that Ted Robinson's first course was in fact in Maryland?
--What do yo have to substantiate your facts?
--What was the intent?
--What was the Mission Statment?

If you guys liked Ted Robinson so much, how come you didn't keep him there and refuse to let him ever come home to California?