Country club relocations?

[Andrew Carr]

Maybe I missed these two being mentioned earlier, but Dick Wilson was responsible for moving two courses on Long Island at nearly the same time: Deepdale & Meadow Brook Club.


Deepdale was originally a C.B. Macdonald and now a few holes are part of the Village of Lake Success Course while the remaining holes make up part of the Long Island Expressway.


Meadow Brook Club was originally a Devereux Emmet and now has been completely replaced with the Meadowbrook Parkway.

[Mike_Trenham]

In Phildelphia alone,

Famously:
Merion
Philadelphia Country Club
Aronimink
Huntingdon Valley
Philadelphia Cricket Club (acquired land for a new golf course, older course now nine holes)

Less famously:
Sunnybrook
Cedarbrook
St. David's
White Manor (older course now the lovely Paxon Hollow)

I think the majority of these relocations were because valuable leases ran out on the old properties - which were mostly still within the confines of the City of Philadelphia - and the club bought new land.

Not coincidental to this is the fact that almost all of these courses had some member of the so-called "Philadelphia School" working on the new projects. Sunnybrook and Cedarbrook subsequently moved again to their current sites.

A couple of others from the DelVal:


Wilmington CC
Green Valley

Also within the Golf Association of Philadelphia


Old York CC
Overbrook Golf Club
CC of Scranton


In other interesting history is, Llanerch CC while still on it’s first plot of land the club has opperated under FIVE different names. 

[Yannick Pilon]

Here in Montreal, the Rosemère Golf Club recently sold their 96 years old course to make place for a new housing development. They used the money to buy neighboring course Le Fontainebleau from Clublink who will, however, continue to manage it.
https://rosemere.clublink.ca/

[Steven Blake]

Milwaukee Country Club was originally in the city of Milwaukee until moving to its current location in River Hills.




Steve Blake

[Scott Weersing]

Ventura Country Club, designed by Thomas and Bell in 1921, moved in 1964.  Became Saticoy CC. Now The Saticoy Club.


The original course became an expanded road, ballfields,  and a par 34, nine hole course, Saticoy Regional GC.







 https://www.thesaticoyclub.com/about-us/history

[Peter_Collins]

Kansas City Country Club relocated from what is now Loose Park to its current location.


Mission Hills Country Club moved its clubhouse across the state line from Missouri to Kansas where the golf course was located when liquor laws in Kansas changed.   (The golf course abutted state line.)



Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City also relocated. 


Both Wichita Country Club (twice) and Crestview Country Club in Wichita relocated.


In the late 1970s, Meadowbrook Country Club was a decent enough club with a serviceable golf course located in a suburb of Kansas City called Prairie Village.  It was the newer "Jewish club" in town.  What 10 years prior was a golf course surrounded by row crop fields now occupied prime residential real estate land.  A developer offered them enough land to build a new club and enough money to do it about 30 blocks due south on the far side of the interstate no one thought development would ever cross.  After much gnashing of teeth of long contentious membership meetings the offer was turned down.   Turn the clock forward 15 years and the land they were offered is now heavily developed prime real estate in the middle of one of the best school districts in the Midwest.  To add insult to injury Hallbrook Country Club was built on land within a stones throw from the land offered them and many Meadowbrook members migrated to the newer shinier Hallbrook with its Tom Fazio designed golf course.   Turn the clock forward to today and Meadowbrook Country Club does not exist, a casualty of the 2008 recession (although it limped along a good 5 years on fumes) and the land is being developed into mixed use residential, a city owned multipurpose facility (quid pro quo for zoning concessions and very developer friendly tax increment financing)  and a city park.

[archie_struthers]

 




Hey Mike how about Bala in Philly?

[Joe Bausch]

Hey Mike how about Bala in Philly?

Hmmm, I’ll have to think about that one.  I think Bala is at their original location.

[Bob Harris]

From the club's website:

Over the years many of the original golf clubs that lined City Avenue at one time succumbed to the pressure of the burgeoning city and relocated their entire Club to a more suburban locale. Prestigious Philadelphia Country Club was originally located on the site of the old Adam's Mark Hotel. In fact, when they moved to their new home in Gladwyne in 1939, Bala Golf Club "inherited" many of their greens and they are still being used today by our Members.

That site, laid out by Willie Tucker, provided the club members with a 9 hole, 2,747 yard layout with a par of 35 1/2. Although the original course was higly regarded, the pressure to go to an 18 hole course convinced the membership to act, and, in 1923, William S. Flynn, a noted golf course designer (among them, Rolling Green, Huntington Valley, Cherry Hills in Denver, The Country Club in Brookline, Seaview, Shinnecock Hills, and Lancaster CC), was brought in to renovate the course. Flynn's challenge was to build nine additional holes, fold them into the Tyler design, and fit it all into the existing acreage. He succeeded admirably.

[D_Malley]

Paxon Hollow moved from original location in Havertown (Brookline Square Club)
Relocated to current site as Paxon Hollow CC in 1926
White Manor Leased the course from the bank in the 50's

[Joe Bausch]

The Springhaven Club started as a 9 hole layout in Rose Tree, PA.

[D_Malley]

Yes, springhaven was originally at the 5 points location in media

[Wayne_Kozun]

The Hamilton Golf & Country Club has moved twice.  The Brantford Golf & Country Club has moved at least twice.

Isn't the Chedoke muni one of HG&CC's previous sites?

[Wayne_Kozun]

Isn't this thread about country clubs that have relocated sites and left the original course behind.  A crap-ton of the posts are XYZ country club has moved about twice but they don't mention that they are currently still used as golf courses - because most of them aren't.

[Rick Shefchik]

Minneapolis Golf Club left its original site in Golden Valley for a new site in St. Louis Park in 1916. Golden Valley Golf & Country Club still occupies MGC's original site.


Midland Hills CC in Roseville (St. Paul suburb) left its original site when it was known as the University Golf Club. Seth Raynor designed their new course in 1920 on a nearby farm site, leaving the University Course behind. That became a 9-hole course called Minnepau until the University of Minnesota bought it and hired Tom Vardon to expand it to 18 holes in 1926.

[Brad Tufts]

Wollaston GC south of Boston left their original site and went to Canton to a Fazio course in the 80s.


The old Wollaston is now President's Golf Course, and is quite the fun 5700y layout.