Maplewood Country Club (NJ) | Alfred Williams

[Mike Davidson]

Also here are some aerials of Maplewood:


1931:


1954:


2012:

[Mike Davidson]

Apologies, some of the pictures are getting posted very large in here, I am not sure how to reduce them.

[Joe Bausch]

Apologies, some of the pictures are getting posted very large in here, I am not sure how to reduce them.

Check your PMs Mike to learn how to make your big pictures 'fit' and have them be clickable to a big size.

[Joe Bausch]

Like this Mike (hit reply to this message, click on the arrow icon with the red brackets, then study how I used the image tags).

[Mike Davidson]

Thanks Joe!  I got it, going to go back and fix everything now!

[Bret Lawrence]

Mike,


The last article you posted mentions a present club house. Do you know the location of the original club house? 


I think the statement of the 14 acres the club now held title to was only to differentiate it from the land the golf course was located on. The land for the golf course may have been acquired by lease or mortgage? The article makes it sound like they had acquired enough land for an 18 hole course which was scheduled to open on Memorial Day 1922.


Sven cites his Al Williams article on the Willie Park Jr. thread from August 22, 1922.  Perhaps this article contains information on all 18 holes?  The article wasn't posted in the thread, so I don't know exactly what it says. 


Researching stories on Linwood Country Club may help your search too.  If Al Williams built a second nine holes at Maplewood, it most likely would have been around the same time or just after he worked at Linwood.  There was a quote of: "Harry W. Williams, who has been the pro at Galen Hall links, will go to the new Linwood Country Club at Linwood, near Atlantic City, after the first of the year" from The Evening Public Ledger-December 28, 1920.  Linwood opened their first five holes in March of 1921.  I wonder if this was Al's brother?  The story from Hartford mentioned he had a brother in the business.


Bret

[MCirba]

Interestingly, I've seen Harry Williams co-credited with Alex Findlay as being responsible for the  first nine hole course at Galen Hall.

[Mike Davidson]

Waking this thread back up.  I am still working towards finding more information on the club, specifically trying to find anything about when the second nine holes was built.

[Mike Davidson]

Alfred Williams was the greens keeper at both Garden City Golf Club and Hartford Golf Club and so I wonder if there is any link to be found between Maplewood and Deveraux Emmet.  I know that the Maplewood course was built between 1919(first 9, Alfred Williams) and 1920-1922(second 9).  Emmet is credited with multiple NY/NJ courses from 1919-1923 if my research is correct so he was generally in the area. 


Unfortunately information on Maplewood is tough to find especially regarding the second 9.  I found club minutes from 1903-1980 and while the course is mentioned, details are sparse and an architect is not.  Many times the golf committee meeting notes are mentioned which would most likely have all of my answers but I doubt they exist anywhere at this point.