Boy - Mike, your post is shot through with connections to Springdale GC history, which was founded as the Princeton Golf Club by local people and Princeton University Alumni.
Percy Pyne's father Moses Taylor Pyne is one of the founders of Springdale.
Our course symbol is the PU Graduate College - "Cleveland Tower" named in honor of former President Grover Cleveland who moved to Princeton after he left the White House and ultimately became a PU Trustee. His home "Westland" is on Hodge Road.
Cleveland was supportive of establishing the Graduate College (quad) in it's ultimate location and had a dispute with Woodrow Wilson who wanted the new College on the main part of campus.
( See this article:
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/cleveland_grover.html )
We have no evidence that Cleveland played golf, but Wayne Morrison sent me an old newspaper article with a drawing of Woodrow Wilson at the Princeton Golf Club - so he appears to have played.
As you well know and pointed out in another thread, Hugh Wilson played his college golf at Springdale and joined our Green Committee in 1900 to plan the move of the course from it's original location.
We hired William Flynn to do the re-design of the course in 1927 through Hugh Wilson.
Our golf pro found some materials indicating that in the 1920s Springdale did home/away matches with Pine Valley and Somerset Hills. I was born much too late !
Ernie Ransom - the former P V President who died a few years ago was a Princeton Alum. I met him at Chechesee Creek Club.
We could probably go on and on like this.