Jim,
I do think the guide is incorrect. As with many course across the country, they love to say their old course was a ross course if he came thru town and stopped. I think it is obvious in looking at the course that it is not a ross routing and the greens complexes do not seem to be ross green complexes. The green chairman himself even admitted that they thoght ross had stopped by there at one time but they did not know what he had done there. So I think I will stick to my guns.
Mike
Mike, the Donald Ross Society also credits Ross as architect. So does the Dayton Country Club website. So does the Ohio Golf Association.
But here is an article from the Dayton Daily News that suggests Glenn and you may both be right:
"The first U.S. Open Golf Championship was held in 1895 at the Newport (R.I.) Country Club.
Three years later a group of Dayton men organized the Dayton Golf Club. That club lasted until 1908 when the Dayton Country Club rose from its ashes.
Dayton Country Club is the oldest club in the immediate Dayton area. The only older club in the Miami Valley is the Piqua Country Club, which built a golf course in 1895.
Dayton Country Club is located on a beautiful piece of wooded land at the Oakwood-Kettering border.
Some of the golf holes are just across the road from Hills and Dales Park. Because the club is situated on high ground, there are some extraordinary views of Dayton from certain places on the property.
The DCC golf course is a tight, hilly layout that can be played at just over 6,300 yards. The current par is 70, but don't allow that lack of length to fool you. The narrow, tree-lined fairways and tricky greens protect par pretty well.
The great architect, Donald Ross, designed DCC's greens in 1915. The club had the course remodeled in the 1940s by William Diddel and in the 1960s by Geoffrey Cornish.
Current DCC pro David Bahr says 12 of the present holes are originals. DCC hosted the Ohio Amateur Championship in 1920 and 1962. It was home for many years to the Miami Valley PGA Match Play Championship and has hosted a U.S. Amateur qualifier the last couple of years.
DCC has weathered many a storm. A fire in 1929 badly damaged much of the clubhouse and destroyed the riding stables. The Great Depression took its toll on membership, but the club bounced back with the economy. During World War II, the upper story of the clubhouse was made into a dorm for military officers.
DCC was enhanced with the construction of a new swimming pool in 2002 and it appears ready for the challenges of the years ahead."