Your home club--where is it?

« **Reply #25 on:** October 20, 2003, 10:54:03 AM »

Great Hills Golf Club
Austin, TX
18 Holes by Don January and Billy Martindale
Revisions by Bill Coore (?)

« **Reply #26 on:** October 20, 2003, 01:39:15 PM »

Southern Pines Golf Club
Southern Pines, NC
Donald Ross

See the review on this site for more details

« **Reply #27 on:** October 20, 2003, 05:32:02 PM »

Quote from: Rob_Kimball on October 19, 2003, 06:04:34 PM

Question: What does a golf course have to be in order to make it "special" for an individual player? I would love to have a crack at ANGC, PVGC, CPGC, NGLA, Merion, etc, but if that never happens, I will be fine with my time on the links with my dad, no matter where the course.

Any thoughts from the treehouse regarding memorable rounds with sons/daughters, relations?

Rob - Have you read the book "Final Rounds." If you love playing golf with your dad you will read it over and over and never stop crying. Awesome stuff!!

My home course: York CC, York NE designed in the late teens (front nine) and the back opened in 1988 and believed to be designed by Jim Engh.

You mention memorable rounds. None better than playing Pinehurst #2 with my dad and brother in Christmas of 1998. We also toured #7, #8 and Tobacco Road. I have also played SandHills and Prairie Dunes with them. No matter where we are if that is the threesome, it is the best life can offer.

« **Reply #28 on:** October 20, 2003, 07:43:03 PM »

Hidden Creek Golf Club
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Coore/Crenshaw
2002

See review

« **Reply #29 on:** October 20, 2003, 08:54:06 PM »

Castlewood CC
Hill Course
Valley Course
Billy Bell did some of the work but I haven't looked up the specifics.
I marshal there in exchange for playing privileges.

Stevinson Ranch
John Harbottle/George somebody or other who is assoc. with the SF Giants.

« **Reply #30 on:** October 21, 2003, 10:34:02 AM »

Spring Brook CC
Morristown NJ
Thomas Hucknall 1921

BF

« **Reply #31 on:** October 21, 2003, 02:28:58 PM »

Don't belong to a club currently. The closest thing I have is the municipal course I play once a month called Forrest Park in Noblesville, IN. It is rumored to have been designed by Langford and Moreau. I don't think so because it doesn't fit time wise from what I've gathered.

« **Reply #32 on:** October 21, 2003, 03:22:51 PM »

Balboa Park Golf Club
San Diego, Ca.
1918 William Park Bell
redsigned in 1995 by Halsey Daray Corp.

« **Reply #33 on:** October 21, 2003, 03:49:23 PM »

Columbia Edgewater
Portland , Oregon

1925 Macan design
Home of the LPGA Safeway Classic

« **Reply #34 on:** October 21, 2003, 03:50:45 PM »

White Manor Country Club
Malvern, PA
Orignal Club location(1948) is now Paxon Hollow Golf Course
Current location 1964 designed by William and David Gordon
Renovated/Re-designe in 2002-2003 by Bobby Weed.

Jason Mandel

« **Reply #35 on:** October 21, 2003, 03:54:39 PM »

Atlantic Country Club
Plymouth Mass.
Mark Mungeam

Good variety of holes, wind is usually a factor. When we get a nor' easter, opposite the prevailing, I just can't wait to get there...............

« **Reply #36 on:** October 21, 2003, 06:47:46 PM »

1. Charles River CC - Newton Centre, Ma.
Donald Ross - 1921

2. Aronimink Golf Club - Newtown Square, Pa.
Donald Ross - 1928

« **Reply #37 on:** October 21, 2003, 07:10:07 PM »

Hamilton Golf Club
Ancaster, Ontario
Harry Colt

« **Reply #38 on:** October 21, 2003, 07:16:05 PM »

Conwy (Caernarvonshire) GC

It dates back to 1860s when Jack Morris (brother of Tom and Professional at Hoylake) laid out a few holes, but every time there's been a World War (two of them to be precise) it has become an army encampment, so the present layout dates from after Second World War (no credited architects). Since then some work has been done by Frank Pennink, Brian Huggett, Neil Coles, David Williams and Donald Steel. It has been enough to make it a regular R&A Championship course, to be a final qualifying course for the 2006 Open Championship and to bring me to my knees every time I play it. A course doesn't need to be a Tillie or Mackenzie masterpiece to sort the men from the boys - but it usually helps. The scenery in this case sets it apart, architecture or no architecture.

« **Reply #39 on:** October 21, 2003, 10:18:38 PM »

Beverly Country Club
Chicago, IL
Donald Ross - 1920ish

please see my club history under "My Home Course" to the left!!!

« **Reply #40 on:** October 22, 2003, 08:03:42 PM »

Highland Golf links (annual pass)
Stanley Thompson

« **Reply #41 on:** October 22, 2003, 09:22:42 PM »

Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, NY
East Course:Donald Ross, RTJ, Fazio, Craig Schreiner
West Course: Donald Ross, with original 18th (now 9th) green Moved by unknown architect.

« **Reply #42 on:** October 23, 2003, 11:10:15 AM »

Olympia Fields CC (thanks Terry Lavin!)
Olympia Fields, IL
North Course: Willie Park, Jr. (original routing, 15 original greens, new bunkers and some moved fairway lines)
South Course: Tom Bendelow, although it's a combination of holes from OFCC's other courses. Don't know of changes, but it doesn't have the revised look a lot of courses got in the last few decades. Got to do a My Home Course on this one (check Terry's for the North Course).

Jeff Goldman

« **Reply #43 on:** October 23, 2003, 12:07:44 PM »

My "home" home course is:

Aronimink GC
Newtown Square, PA
Donald Ross

Although, I now live in San Francisco and would have to call the Presidio GC, in SF my "other" home course. Not sure who gets design credit for this course, and I believe it was the original site of the San Francisco GC.

« **Reply #44 on:** October 23, 2003, 01:03:34 PM »

I used to know where my home club is but at the moment I can't remember. Give me a week, though, and I'll probably figure it out. I think I might belong to a couple of them on the Eastern end of Long Island but something tells me that may not be true.

« **Reply #45 on:** October 23, 2003, 03:42:22 PM »

Quote from: TEPaul on October 23, 2003, 01:03:34 PM

I used to know where my home club is but at the moment I can't remember. Give me a week, though, and I'll probably figure it out. I think I might belong to a couple of them on the Eastern end of Long Island but something tells me that may not be true.

Tom I --

As soon as you get it all sorted out, could you get all of us on there?

Thanks.

Dan

P.S. I'll bring the flask.

« **Reply #46 on:** October 23, 2003, 03:42:49 PM »

Lakeside Memorial Golf Course
Stillwater, OK

1940's - Labron Harris Sr.
1998 - Tripp Davis remodel

« **Reply #47 on:** October 23, 2003, 04:07:53 PM »

Plum Hollow
Southfield, MI

1947 PGA Championship, 1943 Ryder Cup, 1957 Western Open.
Colt/Alison design (Alison did the work)

Renovatins by Wilfreid Reid (Great work) and Bill Newcomb (Awful Work). Currently under the loving touch of Bruce Matthews and a very bright Greens Committee

« **Reply #48 on:** October 23, 2003, 05:40:45 PM »

"Tom I --
As soon as you get it all sorted out, could you get all of us on there?"

Dan;

Sure no problem. In the meantime why don't you all go up to NGLA, Shinnecock, Maidstone and Friar's and play all you want on me? If it turns out I don't belong to some or any of them I'm sorry about that but don't say I didn't try to take care of you.

« **Reply #49 on:** October 24, 2003, 06:31:30 AM »

Home Club

Royal Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
West: Mackenzie
East: Mackenzie, Russel

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