News:

This discussion group is best enjoyed using Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari.

Pages: [1]

Joe Bausch

  • Karma: +0/-0
Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« on: January 26, 2016, 02:20:27 PM »
The Friends of Cobb’s Creek Golf Course are very pleased to announce that the Philadelphia municipal golf course will be honored this year with induction into the "African American Golfers Hall of Fame" (AAGHOF) at a ceremony this May in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Read the rest of the article Mike Cirba penned for MyPhillyGolf here:

http://myphillygolf.com/detail.asp?id=17112
 
« Last Edit: January 26, 2016, 02:35:27 PM by Joe Bausch »
Logged
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

BCrosby

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2016, 02:38:35 PM »
Congrats Joe, Mike and all.



Logged

Jon Wiggett

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2016, 05:02:32 PM »
Nice to hear this. Well deserved.
Logged

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2016, 08:42:13 AM »
Thanks fellows...

I'm rather certain that my life would have taken a much different turn for the worse had I not been exposed to golf a week before my 13th birthday.   It certainly would have been lacking all of the richness of the friendships and golfing acquaintances I've been lucky enough to have over the years.

While I'm not sure we "need" to "grow the game", I do think we need to provide opportunities for people to become exposed to the game, particularly young people in their formative years.   The life lessons taught by golf are invaluable and almost unobtainable in any other forum I can think of.   

Thus, our mission continues.   Thanks again.
Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Kris Shreiner

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2016, 10:51:20 AM »
Mike, Joe, and Friends,
Thank you, and congratulations! There are some illuminating facts in that article, and it's great when we get other, hidden layers of Cobb's rich history revealed to us.
On an interesting side note, better supporting Caddie Golf is finally on the agenda this week at a meeting at this year's PGA Show!
There is a pilot program, providing youth caddie opportunities at municipal facilities,  that has been launched privately, and active discussions to gradually expand it are ongoing.
Given the deep ties that Cobb's has had to the caddie dynamic in the past, on multiple levels, it would stand to reason that properly supported,  a similar program could  be established at Cobb's in time.
It took the better part of 10 years plus to get Cobb"s from GAP dream to reality, in 1916.
Let's hope we can shorten that time-frame before the  restovation commences, as Cobb's embarks on it"s sec.ond century serving as a beacon for all that has been, and IS possible in this great game of golf!
Well done, and warm thanks for continuing to champion one of the most storied municipal golf facilities in the country- Cobb's Creek, West Philadelphia, PA.
Kris  8)
« Last Edit: January 27, 2016, 11:05:56 AM by Kris Shreiner »
Logged
"I said in a talk at the Dunhill Tournament in St. Andrews a few years back that I thought any of the caddies I'd had that week would probably make a good golf course architect. We all want to ask golfers of all abilities to get more out of their games -caddies do that for a living." T.Doak

Bret Lawrence

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2016, 11:16:37 AM »
Mike, Joe and everyone at Cobb's Creek:


Congratulations!  Keep up the good work.


Bret
Logged

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2016, 04:00:44 PM »
Thanks Kris and Bret...much appreciated!

Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Jon Wiggett

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2016, 04:12:31 PM »

Can anyone point me to thread with a course tour of Cobb's Creek?
I have had a look on the search feature but have been unable to find one.

Jon
Logged

Joe Bausch

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2016, 04:48:12 PM »
Quote from: Jon Wiggett on January 28, 2016, 04:12:31 PM

Can anyone point me to thread with a course tour of Cobb's Creek?
I have had a look on the search feature but have been unable to find one.

Jon


Here is a photo album I put together from a couple of years ago:


http://xchem.villanova.edu/~bausch/images/albums/CobbsCreek/
Logged
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Ed Brzezowski

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2016, 04:54:02 PM »
Quote from: MCirba on January 27, 2016, 08:42:13 AM
Thanks fellows...

I'm rather certain that my life would have taken a much different turn for the worse had I not been exposed to golf a week before my 13th birthday.   It certainly would have been lacking all of the richness of the friendships and golfing acquaintances I've been lucky enough to have over the years.

While I'm not sure we "need" to "grow the game", I do think we need to provide opportunities for people to become exposed to the game, particularly young people in their formative years.   The life lessons taught by golf are invaluable and almost unobtainable in any other forum I can think of.   

Thus, our mission continues.   Thanks again.

Growing the game is a good objective Mike, at least in my opinion. I look where the game has taken me geographically, spiritually and friendship wise. I think most golfers lives are richer due to the game. I see it as an obligation to pass it along, which causes both the game and the individual to grow. Or I am just a weirdo and wrong, I hope not.

ed`
Logged
We have a pool and a pond, the pond would be good for you.

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2016, 04:56:17 PM »
Jon,

One of the goals of our group is the restoration of the original course routing, lost in the 1950s due to a US military installation with air defense missiles, utilizing about 15% of the total original course acreage.   As such, the course was re-routed to utilize all the existing greens but today's holes 6, 7, 8, 9 (truncated), 14, 15, and 16 are not original.   Other original features such as the wild greensite of today's 10th were also lost with time.

The good news is that the original course is wholly restorable to that original design (the military install is now a driving range) and Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner have created a Master Plan.   

Thanks for you interest.


Ed,

Simpatico on that one, my friend.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2016, 05:19:14 PM by MCirba »
Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Ed Brzezowski

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2016, 05:02:41 PM »
I'm still not voting for Hillary Mike.
Logged
We have a pool and a pond, the pond would be good for you.

Jon Wiggett

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2016, 06:40:29 PM »
Thanks Joe.
Logged

Joe Bausch

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2016, 07:22:55 PM »
Quote from: Ed Brzezowski on January 28, 2016, 05:02:41 PM
I'm still not voting for Hillary Mike.

deleted.
« Last Edit: January 29, 2016, 10:10:38 AM by Joe Bausch »
Logged
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

JJShanley

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2016, 09:08:47 AM »
Logged

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2016, 10:05:30 AM »
I'm writing in Biden or perhaps moving to Ted Cruz's native land.   

Please let's not let this thread devolve into a political discussion, tho.  Thanks.   ;)
Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

JJShanley

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2016, 10:21:29 AM »
Quote from: MCirba on January 29, 2016, 10:05:30 AM
I'm writing in Biden or perhaps moving to Ted Cruz's native land.   

Please let's not let this thread devolve into a political discussion, tho.  Thanks.   ;)


We did well in the 1980s thread, no?
Logged

Ed Brzezowski

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2016, 01:19:22 PM »
Mike or Joe, has anyone heard if this was insured? I would assume Casper had a contract where they provided the insurance??
Logged
We have a pool and a pond, the pond would be good for you.

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2016, 01:52:37 PM »
Ed,

There is insurance but I don't know details.  Something will get rebuilt.
Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2016, 02:21:56 PM »
Joe and I plan to head to West Palm Beach for this event on Thursday the 26th and won't be coming home until the afternoon of Monday the 30th, Memorial Day.   We'll likely be playing golf constantly between obligations and are wondering if there are any nearby  courses of historical note we should see during our visit?

Got the news yesterday that PGA great Jim Dent will be in attendance and performing a clinic that sounds like great fun.   Here's the promotional poster with the other awardees;

Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Steve_ Shaffer

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2016, 03:13:24 PM »
Good for you and Joe!!!!


You don't have to go far to find a 1928 Herbert Strong course:
http://www.pontevedra.com/florida_golf_resorts/


The nearby private Sawgrass CC is of some historical interest as the the original home of The Players:
http://www.sawgrasscountryclub.com/club/scripts/section/section.asp?GRP=12591&NS=PG


And the Fernandina Beach GC is a must play to honor Tom Paul:
http://www.fernandinabeachgolfclub.com/
Logged
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... "  Adlai Stevenson
Hyman Roth to Michael Corleone: "We're bigger than US Steel."
Ben Hogan “The most important shot in golf is the next one”

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2016, 03:32:09 PM »
Thanks, Steve.   The Ocean Course at Ponte Vedra looks intriguing.   I think at one point they claimed to have the original "island green" in the US but there were a number of courses in and around Philadelphia that preceded them by at least a decade and perhaps others elsewhere.

However, isn't Jacksonville over four hours drive from West Palm Beach??  ;)  :)
« Last Edit: May 11, 2016, 03:35:00 PM by MCirba »
Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/

Steve_ Shaffer

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #22 on: May 11, 2016, 06:10:40 PM »
Mike,


Ooops... my speed reading caught up to me. West Palm is not near WGHOF in Ponte Vedre/Jacksonville area.


How about a Dick Wilson? http://www.wpalmbeachgc.com/course/ Was recently renovated though.


In Delray Beach, there's a fairly basic  Ross course : http://www.delraybeachgolfclub.com/course/


In Lake Worth, you'll find a 1925 Langford: http://www.lakeworthgolfclub.com/aboutus/


In the private arena,Seminole is closed for the summer. Don't know about Gulfstream or Palm Beach CC or Everglades.


Park Ridge is a neat landfill course with a 6-6-6 routing. It's public. http://www.pbcgov.com/parks/sports/golf/parkridge/#.VzPOioQrLIU


The Palm Beach Ocean course is worth a play: http://www.golfontheocean.com/
« Last Edit: May 11, 2016, 08:30:24 PM by Steve_ Shaffer »
Logged
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... "  Adlai Stevenson
Hyman Roth to Michael Corleone: "We're bigger than US Steel."
Ben Hogan “The most important shot in golf is the next one”

MCirba

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Cobb's Creek GC to be inducted into AAGHOF
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2016, 09:15:28 AM »
Steve,

Thanks for the info.   I've played West Palm Beach and Delray Beach on prior visits, but the par three on the ocean is a must and the Langford course at Lake Worth looks intriguing.   
Logged
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/
Pages: [1]
Tags:
Tags:

An Error Has Occurred!

Call to undefined function theme_linktree()
Back