News:

Welcome to the Golf Club Atlas Discussion Group!

Each user is approved by the Golf Club Atlas editorial staff. For any new inquiries, please contact us.

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Eric Smith

  • Karma: +0/-0
Belmont CC in Boston. How much Ross remains?
« on: April 20, 2011, 05:18:10 PM »
An old friend has invited me to play at Belmont CC (formerly known as Belmont Springs), just outside of Boston. He says it's a Ross course - so I looked it up on the web and searched around in here a bit as well.  It sounds to me like a lot has been done to the course since Mr. Ross was there.

Still a Ross?
« Last Edit: April 20, 2011, 05:34:17 PM by Eric Smith »
Logged

RSLivingston_III

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Is Belmont CC considered a Ross course?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 05:30:06 PM »
This subject needs more discussion on this site.

I will start by suggesting a 51% test for what is left of the greens, bunkering and routing.
Logged
"You need to start with the hickories as I truly believe it is hard to get inside the mind of the great architects from days gone by if one doesn't have any sense of how the equipment played way back when!"  
       Our Fearless Leader

Sven Nilsen

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Belmont CC in Boston. How much Ross remains?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2018, 12:05:13 PM »
Here's a Nov. 9, 1920 Boston Post article discussing the changes made to the original 18 hole course.

Gives you a little bit of insight into how the game was progressing between (a) 1909 when Ross, his brother and Findlay first contributed to the intitial design and (b) only a decade later.


Logged
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

Sven Nilsen

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Belmont CC in Boston. How much Ross remains?
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2018, 12:11:52 PM »
Here's a depiction of the course after those changes taken from a Mass Golfer article.



I meant to add all of this to the following thread which has a bit more discussion of the early changes and links to the Mass Golfer article, but posted in this one by accident:

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,52992.msg1217625.html#msg1217625
Logged
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

Tim Martin

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Belmont CC in Boston. How much Ross remains?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2018, 03:42:29 PM »
Eric-Don’t hesitate on heading to Belmont. It’s still got a fair amount of Donald Ross features and is a fun and challenging golf course with a first rate presentation. If you go in the Fall make sure the Patriot’s won the preceding week as Robert Kraft and his family are members along with a lot of other New England faithful. I really enjoyed the day there last Summer.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up