A Compilation of Routing Maps, Plans and Architectural Drawings

[Joe Bausch]

Maps and comments courtesy of Greg Hohman.

All maps clickable to a larger size!

Balboa Park 9, San Diego, CA. Architect: William P. Bell, 1931. Source: 100 Years of Golf in San Diego County (1997) by Norrie West.



Mission Valley Country Club, San Diego, CA. Architect: L. M. Hughes, 1947. Source: original pamphlet (currently MIA) promoting the opening of the facility. Renamed Stardust Country Club in 1962, it is today’s Riverwalk, more or less, where I have not been in years. Its scorecard depicts each hole in isolation rather than in a routing.



Ranch View (NLE), North Strabane, PA. Architect: unknown. Source: It is a display ad in a community history book compiled in 1976.

[MCirba]

Greg/Joe,


Not a great resolution but here's the famed Ranch View from 1982.   

[Bret Lawrence]

This is Coldstream CC; this from the June 24, 1959 edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Here is another Coldstream Country Club Layout from 1959:

[Bret Lawrence]

Berkshire Hills Country Club-Pittsfield, MA:



Quogue Field Club-1938:(the short-lived 18-hole course)

[Bret Lawrence]

Onwentsia - 1899

1902 Onwentsia layout:



Link to 1902-1903 Onwentsia Club Book:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89060944162&seq=9

[Bret Lawrence]

Charles Banks' Caracas CC, July 1928




-Courtesy of the National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Here are a couple more plans for Caracas Country Club-Caracas, Venezuela:






The above images are Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

[Stephen Britton]

Chevy Chase Club, Robert White proposed changes, 1920

[Stephen Britton]

Chevy Chase Club, William and David Gordan proposed course changes 1960

[Matt_Cohn]

Balboa Park 9, San Diego, CA. Architect: William P. Bell, 1931. Source: 100 Years of Golf in San Diego County (1997) by Norrie West.

The course now starts with what the map shows as #2, and ends with what the map shows as #1, because that's where the clubhouse for the 18 hole course is. I wonder why they didn't always have it that way?

[Bret Lawrence]

Donald Ross Layout for Whippoorwill:



Charles Banks redesign of Whippoorwill (Note the compass is pointing in the opposite direction, if comparing to the map above):

The images above are Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

[Bret Lawrence]

Hackensack, 1915.

Charles Banks 27-hole design for Hackensack Golf Club when they moved to Oradell.



Charles Banks routing plan for Tamarack Country Club:



Charles Banks layout for the short-lived Westhampton Beach-Oneck course:



The three Charles Banks layouts above were recently re-discovered by Sean Tully in The Architectural Forum., March 1930.

[Bret Lawrence]

Kirkwood Links-Camden, SC.  This layout was included in an article by Walter Travis. The article discusses his experiment with building undulating sand greens in the South.
Golf Illustrated., October 1923

[Bret Lawrence]

Keney Park GC

Here is the original routing map of Keney Park showing Devereux Emmets 18-hole plan for Keney Park. Robert Jack Ross had been given credit for building the back nine, but it appears to have been Emmet’s design all along. This layout was sent to me by Anthony Pioppi.


The Springfield Daily Republican., September 12, 1926:

[Bret Lawrence]

Here is a 1934 layout of Forsgate Farms Country Club.  This particular map was made by Frank Hopkins, who made many drawings and illustrations for Golf Illustrated in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He would typically sign his illustrations “Hop”.  I apologize for the glare on this photo.






A few examples of Frank Hopkins illustrations from Golf Illustrated:

[Bret Lawrence]

Knollwood (1896, March, The Golfer)

Knollwood Country Club-Raynor and Banks plan.



This is the same map that is shown in Post 2 of this thread, but in color.

[Greg Hohman]

The course now starts with what the map shows as #2, and ends with what the map shows as #1, because that's where the clubhouse for the 18 hole course is. I wonder why they didn't always have it that way?

Good question about Balboa 9, Matt (Reply #1658). Although the DG might have the answer, I have asked the City of San Diego’s Golf Division.