Delaware Golf news: 4 courses...

[Steve_ Shaffer]

3 of which are closed and one still hanging around are ripe for development but the 3 closed courses are tied up in litigation or stalled in the development process.  Three Little Bakers was one of the great names for a golf course anywhere. Fun course. Too bad.




http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/08/29/four-ncco-golf-courses-could-disappear/89525188/

[JJShanley]

Hercules became Delaware National, no?  NLE for several years?

[mike_malone]

Originally 3 Little Bakers was Pike Creek Valley. I joined it just out of college for a few hundred dollars. It was a solid course.

[mike_malone]

Both Hercules and Pike Creek were on great land for golf. Cavaliers wasn't as interesting and I never played Brandywine.

[Steve_ Shaffer]

I played Hercules in a GAP match. Interesting, hilly course. Brandywine was a " historically Jewish club" that had declining membership, was located off 202 and became semi- private and then public. The land was too valuable to remain a golf course.

[JJShanley]

Delaware National was one of the first courses I played after moving to the U.S. eleven years ago. 

[Mike_Trenham]

Bigger question is, when will DuPont/Dow divest of DuPont Country Club?  Apparently the property has liberal development rights.

[mike_malone]

Mike
I grew up at DuPont and just came up with an idea to combine Montchanin and Nemours into a top notch course with a great practice facility.

[Joe Bausch]

Mike
I grew up at DuPont and just came up with an idea to combine Montchanin and Nemours into a top notch course with a great practice facility.

Photo albums from the Bausch Collection at MyPhillyGolf.com of these two courses:

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/bausch/DupontNemours/index.html

http://www.myphillygolf.com/uploads/bausch/DupontMontchanin/index.html