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Mike Sweeney

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Due to a death in my host family, I now have three spots to fill at an Autism Fundraiser Golf Outing on Monday July 29th at 12 noon shotgun start. The outing is at the Walter Travis designed Garden City Country Club, and NOT to be confused with the Garden City Golf Club (Men's Club)!!  :) :'(


I have always wanted to play GCCC and there is no charge other than to tip the forecaddies. I will arrive around 11 am for lunch and then tee off is 12 noon.


Please send me an IM here or an email to mws13@me.com if you would like to play.


Thanks


https://www.gardencitycountryclub.org/club/scripts/section/section.asp




In 1916 the Garden City Country Club commissioned Walter J. Travis to design a championship 18 hole golf course.  At that time, Travis was one of the most famous golfers in America, having won the U.S. Amateur in 1900, 1901 and 1903.  In 1904 he became the first American to win the British Amateur Championship.
[/color]The golf course opened on June 1, 1917 and played at 6408 yards.  It Travis' third in Garden City.  The Garden City Country Club's course is said to have included holes modeled after prominent Met-area holes.[/size]

[/color]Early in 1917, professionals Walter Hagan, "Long Jim" Barnes, as well as amateurs Jerry Travers and John G. Anderson played an exhibition match at the club for the benefit of the Red Cross.  On August 13, 1939 two leading women players of the time, Helen Hicks (of Long Island) and Helen Detweiler were paired with host professional Jam Mallon and Willie Klein.[/size]

[/color]Recent championship events held at Garden City Country Club include the 2000 Long Island Amateur, won by current PGA Tour professional Mark Turnesa and the 2003 Metropolitan PGA Head Pro Championship won by Mike Diffley from the Pelham Country Club. In 2012, Garden City hosted the Metropolitan Senior Open. Knickerbocker Country Club Head Professional, Ed Whitman, set the course record record of 65.  The Championship was ultimately won by Professional Pete Busch from Galloping Hill with a two day score of 140.[/size]
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us."

Dr. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

jeffwarne

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another excellent MET Section gem no one has heard of (though I'm sure many have showed up by accident)
Take him up on it
"Let's slow the damned greens down a bit, not take the character out of them." Tom Doak
"Take their focus off the grass and put it squarely on interesting golf." Don Mahaffey

mark chalfant

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A very good Travis course that has minimal ground movement on all but 5 holes. Nevertheless, there is an excellent set of challenging par four holes. Also there are many magnificent Travis contours on the greens.
 Most par threes are not very long but remain extremely sporty !!

This is a great charity to learn about, so go play the GC Country Club!


Thanks  Mike
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Anthony Butler

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Sent you a PM.
Next!

Mike Sweeney

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Sent you a PM.


Anthony is in and now we are 4 for Monday. Thanks all.
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us."

Dr. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Joe Bausch

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I did take up Mike on this generous offer and I thoroughly enjoyed the course.  The photo album I think is outstanding:

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/GardenCityCC/index.html

Run, don't walk, if the opportunity to play Garden City Country Club comes your way.

P.S.  I played the David Gordon 9-hole Bay Park GC in East Rockaway (opened 1956) on the same day.  Here are the photos (tough lighting conditions):

http://www80.homepage.villanova.edu/joseph.bausch/images/albums/BayPark/index.html

Which I'm betting I'm the only person to ever play those two courses on the same day.   ;D
@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

Mike Sweeney

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A very good Travis course that has minimal ground movement on all but 5 holes. Nevertheless, there is an excellent set of challenging par four holes. Also there are many magnificent Travis contours on the greens.
 Most par threes are not very long but remain extremely sporty !!



Mark nails most of it, and I would add:


  • #1 and #18 probably got changed due to the tennis courts, so they are a little squeezed;
  • #13 and #17 play pretty long for par 3's, so I challenge Mark on that "short 3" concept!!;
  • There are 5 par 3's which I like, but did not realize until Joe's update as the outing format does throw off the course rhythm.
  • It was really really hot! A great great walking course, but I am glad for the first time in my life to be in a cart on a very very walkable golf course.
  • The bunkers need some GCA love;
  • In the Colt/Travis/MacKenzie greens conversation, I have no idea where they stand against each other, but they stand ABOVE all others, I think. Great greens and many/most seemed to be intact.
In the fun category of life, I am normally a pretty good bet to bet AGAINST on a golf course, and that tradition continues. We hit the 5th hole from about 135 yards in a "Beat the Pro" contest - closest to the hole. I put up $50 and stuck one to 2.5 feet as the first player to hit. My three partners were outside me and then "The Pro from Coastal Carolina" put one about three inches from the cup!!




$50 to a great cause, my continued humbling of my golf ability, and thanks to all.  ;)
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us."

Dr. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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