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Breaking Down the Bendelow List
Tom Walsh:
1 small thing, 1 bigger thing. Both St. Louis
Algonquin Golf Club, not Country Club- definitely first 9 Bendelow
Normandie has always been credited to Robert Foulis not Bendelow. FWIW their website credits Foulis. I think I've read he lived near the course.
Sven Nilsen:
--- Quote from: Jim Sherma on October 28, 2014, 08:02:04 PM ---Easton GC (Easton, PA) - 1900 Harpers notes laid out by Bendelow in Nov. 1896.
Does anyone know anything about this? I grew up in Easton and Bethlehem and this is the first I have ever heard of it.
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Jim:
Easton GC was listed in the 1899 Guide (as laid out in Nov. 1896), the 1900 Harpers (laid out by Bendelow in Nov. 1896) and the 1901 Harpers. I have not seen any other references to the course. My guess is that it was a short lived club, perhaps one that suffered due to the creation of the CC of Northampton County in 1899.
Sven
Sven Nilsen:
--- Quote from: Rick Shefchik on October 28, 2014, 11:53:27 AM ---The list includes Northland Country Club in Duluth. My research definitely puts Bendelow at NCC around the time that the club expanded to 18 holes in 1912, and it certainly makes sense that he would have been involved, but I haven't been able to find any definitive documentation that he in fact designed the club's first 18-hole layout. I don't think Stuart has found any such proof, either.
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Rick:
Does this help (from the June 10, 1914 edition of The Duluth Herald):
RJ_Daley:
I have often wondered what connection Bendy had that explains the anomally of his branching out so far west to Green Lake WI in 1897 to " lay out" Tescumbia. Given that Green Lake was a resort for wealthy even back then, I suppose a referal from an influential east coast client with a resort home there was made.
Ian Andrew:
Quogue Field Club
Bendelow probably came to Quogue sometime in August of 1900
There is no hard evidence to indicate how much time Bendelow spent working on the course but The Brooklyn Daily Eagle published a story on August 10, 1907, which included the statement, “The grounds were laid out under the direction of Bendelow.”
The construction was believed to begin in September 1900. The Club would have employed a number of workmen to build the course. These would have been mostly farmers to plow and harrow the land. The course was built largely by hand and the assistance of horse teams.
The construction was most likely handled by Alec Lawson
It believed that S.F. Morris, Jr. and E.F. Post oversaw the golf course construction. Morris was the best golfer at the Club at the time and Post maintained a leadership role with respect to golf throughout his years as a Field Club member.
In an article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated October 18, 1900, and entitled “Gossip from Baltusrol”, it states that: “Work on the new golf links at Quogue, L.I. is progressing rapidly and the greens are being prepared for the next season. The course is laid out by Bendelow and is very attractive, skirting in part the shore of Shinnecock Bay. There are a number of natural hazards. Preparations are being made to move the Field Club building to its new site, where it will be more convenient of access.”
It was described in the Suffolk County News at the time as follows: “The new golf links of the Quogue Field Club have been opened for the season and the course is said to be one of the finest on Long Island. It is a nine hole course and extends from the South Country Road [today known as Quogue Street] to Shinnecock Bay and thence among the shore, making the entire course one of picturesque beauty.”
The course was built on approximately 50 acres of land, it played to a par of 38 and extended to 3,135 yards.
The routing of the first three holes of the course was the same as is today. The first hole was a par-5 but it was shorter at 460 yards. The second was slightly shorter par-3 at 125-yards. The third played slightly longer than the current hole as a 290-yard par 5.
The middle stretch of holes was quite different. The fourth hole was a par four of 315-yards playing approximately in the same direction as the current hole but towards the current 6th green. The original 5th was a 350 yard par four playing out towards Penniman’s Point over the land leased from the Foster Sisters. The 6th returned on the same piece of land playing 290 yards back towards the current 6th green.
The routing of the seventh, eighth and ninth holes were very similar to what exists today. The seventh hole was a 465-yard par-5 finishing at the green north of Quanquantuck Lane. The eighth hole was a shorter par-4 than exists today at 320- yards playing to the current green. The ninth hole also was a par-5 and similar in length to today’s ninth hole at 534-yards.
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