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Rick Sides

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Kelly Blake Moran- Moorestown Field House
« on: December 06, 2008, 08:14:37 PM »
Kelly,
This week I was able to play the Moorestown Field House in NJ.  You had done renovations on the course.  The bunkers are really great and it was a fun course to play for such a flat piece of land.  Do you have any pictures to post?

Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Kelly Blake Moran- Moorestown Field House
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2008, 08:55:17 PM »
That would be the Moorestown Field Club:

www.kellyblakemoran.com/moorestown%20blog.html
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Mike_Cirba

Re: Kelly Blake Moran- Moorestown Field House
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2008, 10:21:47 PM »
That's a course I really want to see.

Samuel Allen designed it and there's a great original routing map of the course in a Tillinghast article in American Golfer.   

He also almost certainly designed the first nine holes at Pocono Manor, and I'm sure he had a hand in the early Buck Hills Falls course, as well.

This is what I wrote about Allen recently on another thread;

Samuel Allen was an engineer and an inventor, and the man responsible for incredible innovations to farming and construction equipment, and also the inventor of the "Flexible Flyer" sled.

When Allen was working on the design of Moorestown Field Club, no less an authority than A.W. Tillinghast wrote the following about him in 1911;

"THE NEW nine-hole course of the Field Club, Moorestown, N. J., will be opened early next spring.  Provision is made not only for golf but for cricket, soccer, hockey and tennis.  Mr. Samuel L. Allen who has really been at the head of the work on the new course at Moorestown, has long been a very close student of the many courses which are famous both in America and abroad. He has introduced many pleasing features in the arrangement of the nine holes."

"A very clear idea of the new Moorestown course can be obtained from the sketch which Mr. Allen has prepared.  It will be noticed that the fourth hole is so arranged as to make practically two holes, one tee making the distance 175 yards and the other 210 yards and the same idea is carried out on the eighth hole, the shorter shots being played on the first round.  The shell bunkers are of a style that one sees a good many of in England. They are shaped something like a musselshell lying with its open side to the sky,  sand being placed only in the back part against the hinge portion of the shell, as it were, while the lip is in grass and made sloping."


Mike_Cirba

Re: Kelly Blake Moran- Moorestown Field House
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2008, 03:32:52 PM »
Kelly,

The drawing is on the second page at the following link, but the story starts on page 1.

http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/AmericanGolfer/1911/ag53n.pdf

Hope you find it interesting..

Patrick Kiser

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Re: Kelly Blake Moran- Moorestown Field House
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2008, 04:08:05 PM »
Mike,

Not to get off topic, but I noticed some time back la84 only carries a few years of American Golfer and I was wondering if you knew where we could get our hands on all years.  USGA site?



Kelly,

Very nice.


Kelly,

The drawing is on the second page at the following link, but the story starts on page 1.

http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/AmericanGolfer/1911/ag53n.pdf

Hope you find it interesting..
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Re: Kelly Blake Moran- Moorestown Field House
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2021, 09:54:56 AM »
Here is that 1911 AG drawing Mike mentioned:

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