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Brian Marion

Found in the Archives
« on: November 17, 2010, 10:36:36 PM »
I thought some may be interested in the photo below as I just found it today in doing some research on my home course. It was literally located in a box that was stored in the back of the "dungeon". No one has touched it in almost 20 years and no telling how long it was buried before that.

This was just a few years after the course opened so it is the original green and bunker complexes.

There are four bunkers in the foreground, with a large landing/run up area between the bunkers and the front of the green. Two bunkers flanks left and right of the green with the green itself being shaped sort of like a slice of toast. There is also a small ridge running diagonally between the tee and the front bunkers.

Looks like firm and fast was in play! This was taken in June, 1936.

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Phil_the_Author

Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2010, 10:45:06 PM »
Brian,

That is a wonderful find! What course is it from?
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Brian Marion

Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2010, 10:45:39 PM »
Probably help to know this was/is a 180 yard par three.
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Brian Marion

Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2010, 10:51:15 PM »
Quote from: Philip Young on November 17, 2010, 10:45:06 PM
Brian,

That is a wonderful find! What course is it from?

Rock Hill Country Club, hole No.2.

It may one of the only original images of the course as the clubhouse burned in 1966.
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Bill_McBride

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2010, 11:04:24 PM »
Brian, which Rock Hill?  South Carolina?
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2010, 11:06:30 PM »
Brian,
Thanks. Great looking hole.
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2010, 11:08:20 PM »
Tilinghast, 1934

www.rockhillcountryclub.net


Correct?
« Last Edit: November 17, 2010, 11:27:55 PM by Steve_ Shaffer »
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Dean DiBerardino

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2010, 11:15:02 PM »
Wasn't the original golf course a nine-hole layout?
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2010, 11:16:54 PM »
Steve,
Check your link.  :)
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2010, 11:23:52 PM »
Jim,

Post modified. Thanks.  :)

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Ken Moum

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Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2010, 01:03:53 AM »
What does it look like today?

My home course was opened about 1915, and was remodeled and added on to by Ross a few years later.  I would love to see shots like that of it, as the oldest I can find are aerials from 1948, and creeping changes in the last 62 years are amazing.  But without ground level photos, it's hard ti figure out how some of the changes happened.

K
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Brian Marion

Re: Found in the Archives
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2010, 10:33:38 AM »
I'll get a shot of the hole as it looks now, it looks very different.


Yes, Rock Hill CC in Rock Hill, SC
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