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Tim Gallant

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Spring Lake Golf Club
« on: February 13, 2023, 07:01:10 AM »
Does anyone know much about Spring Lake GC in New Jersey? It sounds like it has a wonderful architectural lineage. Also, from aerials, it looks like it has recently been restovated. Anyone know who works there/consulted there?

Chris Mavros

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2023, 08:54:43 AM »
Tripp Davis did the recent work, which I believe was to the Ninth and Eighteenth.  It was designed by George Thomas in 1910, then Tillinghast in 1918. 


It's a great play with lots of width and angled off greens that make for a fun, strategic round. 


My photos of each hole and commentary on the course are below.


https://golfadelphia.com/2020/11/08/spring-lake-golf-club/

Tim Gallant

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2023, 09:08:56 AM »
Tripp Davis did the recent work, which I believe was to the Ninth and Eighteenth.  It was designed by George Thomas in 1910, then Tillinghast in 1918. 


It's a great play with lots of width and angled off greens that make for a fun, strategic round. 


My photos of each hole and commentary on the course are below.


https://golfadelphia.com/2020/11/08/spring-lake-golf-club/


Really nice write-up Chris! Certainly looks like one to add to the wishlist.

Peter Sayegh

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2023, 05:59:21 PM »
Tim,
I've never heard a bad word about the course or the club.
A high school friend (I believe she's still the Women's Champ there) raves how the course has retained its character and playability through the years.
Never played it but walked it many times. Great property.

MCirba

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2023, 08:38:57 PM »
Back when I played there a decade or so ago the 5th green was one of those gull-winged, butterfly sectional greens much like the 5th at Crystal Downs but a look at the historical imagery shows me that was altered in the most recent renovations.   That was a mistake, IMHO.
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

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Bill Crane

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2023, 06:13:52 PM »
NJ  ~   look before you laugh !


And Mike Cirba will tell you that Manasquan River is even better.
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MCirba

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2023, 06:29:15 PM »
NJ  ~   look before you laugh !


And Mike Cirba will tell you that Manasquan River is even better.


Manasquan River is even better, built thoughtfully on some varied and amazing land very rare in that part of NJ.
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

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Pat Burke

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2023, 12:38:35 AM »
The absurd wealth of courses I got to play when I was a kid in NJ/NY started my love of golf course design


Even as a kid not understanding the nuances/strategy/thought processes,


I just loved playing all these courses with my friends.
Deal, Hollywood, Forsgate, Spring Lake, Manasquan we’re my playgrounds as a kid, but also my education to learning how to play.


No money, but incredibly spoiled!!!

Phil Young

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2023, 03:46:20 PM »
There is more history involved with this course than Thomas and Tilly. The June 5th, 1920 edition of The American Golfer contained an article with the title, "Freaky, Freakier, Freakiest." The article contained a number of anecdotes about strange golf shots. This is one of them:
"Next November four years ago [1916], I was standing on the eighteenth green of the Spring Lake Golf and Country Club, Spring Lake, N.J., (this green has since been changed, but at that time it was in a hollow and was a blind hole), when a ball landed on the green and rolled into the cup. Waiting to see who had played it, it happened to be a friend of mine, Mr. Albert Burgesser of New York. While I was congratulating him on the shot, which I had never seen done in the years I had played there, another ball landed on the green, rolled into the cup. This time it happened to be President [Woodrow] Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and several Secret Service men. I took the opportunity of congratulating the President, and I believe he said it was the best shot he had ever made.”

Rick Sides

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2023, 08:08:38 PM »
MCirba,
Mannasquan River = best course I ever played !

MCirba

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Re: Spring Lake Golf Club
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2023, 08:34:05 PM »
MCirba,
Mannasquan River = best course I ever played !


High praise but yeah...it's pretty, pretty, pretty good.





"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

https://cobbscreek.org/