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John Foley

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Raynor's Thousand Island Golf Club
« on: August 24, 2005, 09:15:56 PM »
The Old Course at Thousand Island (Upstate NY) lists Seth Raynor as the architect and says a 1894 design. Seems way, way early for his involvement since NGLA is a 1909 opening and Raynor didn't get involved in design untill well after that.

Anyone know the pedigree of the course and how much left on the ground is Raynors?
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George_Bahto

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Re:Raynor's Thousand Island Golf Club
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2005, 11:05:24 AM »
John, although I have not actually been thre I have a lot of info on the course and have been in contact with them for some time - have not gone there because there is not many original features left

the Thousand Islands Club (has had dozens of names), on Wellesley Island, NY, was a Seth Raynor design course built in the early 1920's (1922 and 1923 according to my info) for E. J. Nobel and included a lot of his wealthy friends including one,  Mr Boldt who had, along with George Pullman, sort of got the 1,000 Island area as a "resort" area off the ground.

Boldt was an very interesting story on his own
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