Ran into this neat one the other day, again courtesy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The Sargowana golf course was a private club announced to the masses in this December 10, 1916 edition of the BDE.
What is an AHBD? Almost happened but didn't!
From what I can tell, this course never got on the ground b/c of WW 1.
Here is the routing:
And a description of the layout:
Sargowana was trying to get off the ground at the time of the USGA fuss with architects being deemed professionals if paid for their work. Here is part of a longer article where Travis and Sargowana are talked about, from the January 14, 1917 edition of the BDE:
And a similar snippet from a Jan 23, 1917 BDE article:
Noted amateur Oswald Kirby had signed up to be a member:
But later that month, Sargowana became like one of those VH1 Behind The Music shows, and something started to go terribly wrong.
This from the May 26, 1917 edition of the BDE.
I'm still trying to figure out for certain if this course ever got up and running. Fun to think about how good it might have been....