[Sven Nilsen]

Looking for information on the following courses.  My guess is that some of these were never built, or they became known by other names.

Any help would be appreciated.

1.  Laredo, TX (May 1905 Golfers Magazine)

The only record I have for an early course in Laredo is Casa Blanca CC which dates from 1926.



2.  Louisville, KY (Dec. 1908 Golfers Magazine)

No record of a course by this name being built in Louisville around this time.



3.  Libertyville, IL (Jan. 1917 The American Golfer)

Precedes the earliest date I have for a course in Libertyville.



4.  Memphis, TN (Jan. 1907 Golfers Magazine)

Was this ever built?



5.  New York (Jan. 1916 Golfers Magazine)

Curious if this became known by another name.



6.  New York/Pennsylvania (May 1916 Golf Magazine)

Whose private courses were these?



7.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin (May 1905 Golfers Magazine)

Was this ever built?



8.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (May 1905 Golfers Magazine)

Not sure which course they are referring to here.



9.  Roslyn, New York (Jan. 1920 Golfers Magazine)

Any other information on this Travis project?




10.  Seton Hall, New Jersey (Jan. 1905 Golfers Magazine)

No record of this being built.



11.  Pleasantville, New Jersey (Dec. 1915 Golfers Magazine)

Another complete mystery.

[RJ_Daley]

Sven, could you include the source news or magazine from where you obtained the various clippings, and the dates?  I think that may help estimate the status of the community growth margins in the year the comments were posted.

[Sven Nilsen]

Sven, could you include the source news or magazine from where you obtained the various clippings, and the dates?  I think that may help estimate the status of the community growth margins in the year the comments were posted.

Think we were on the same page, already added in.

[RJ_Daley]

Thanks Sven.  And when I asked for a date and source, it was due to trying to put the Milwaukee citation in its proper era and where that 'rolling meadow' might be.  1905 would have had a short buggy ride to rolling meadows where it has been urban for many decades.  I saw an old drawing aerial conceptual map of old Milwuakee in that era that was demonstrating urban planning, under the very Socialist city government of the time.   The long range plan was to provide many urban recreational parks and venue.  Due to the social-economic make up of Milwaukee at that time, where there is an area commonly referred to as Oakland neighborhood, and is along Oakland and North Oakland Ave., that existed in that era, I am thinking the affluent and families of the north side saw to it that a golf course was in the urban plan on that north side.  I am taking a guess that the Oakland course you cite was to some extent along the Milwaukee river, and may have been located on the site where you find either the current University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, or where the current Shorewood High School reaches towards the Milwaukee River.  Those would have been a short buggy ride from the north side urban dwellers of 1905.  There is another possibility where one now finds a short pitch and putt course called East Lake, not far from Oakland, which is Milwaukee's version of "Torrie Pines" in L.A. Hollywood, named by Tommy Naccarato and Geoff Shackelford.  

I will try to query my aging mind for a search phrase to google that old Milwaukee drawn concept aerial that I spoke of.  I am pretty sure that it had locations for recreational planned areas.

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