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abmack

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What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club New
« on: May 14, 2015, 05:13:57 PM »
According to The Evangelist of Golf, Seth Raynor designed the first 9 holes of The Everglades Club's golf course in 1919. He then returned 1924-1926 to build the back nine. I know this golf course quite well and my understanding is that the course which exists now is much more of a Brian Silva creation than a Seth Raynor. I recently found this 1921 image in the Library of Congress's online archives:



and this one from 1937:



These are the only pictures of the original course that I have ever seen. The hole which exists there now looks nothing like the picture and I wondered whether anyone on GCA knows about what the course originally looked like. I have not done much research... Has anyone looked into the course's history?
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JMEvensky

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Re: What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2015, 07:03:19 PM »
Steve Shaffer has some EC information,I believe. I'm not sure how much he has on the design of the golf course.

Send him a PM or keep bumping until he sees this thread.
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Rees Milikin

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Re: What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2015, 08:05:05 PM »
Andrew, I should have those aerials from the 20's and 30's by tomorrow.  I'll post them here once I receive them.

I am pretty sure there wasn't much water on the course like there is now and that the driving range changed some holes.  The punchbowl par 3 is interesting regardless of whether it is original.
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abmack

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Re: What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2015, 08:15:27 PM »
Quote from: Rees Milikin on May 14, 2015, 08:05:05 PM
Andrew, I should have those aerials from the 20's and 30's by tomorrow.  I'll post them here once I receive them.

I am pretty sure there wasn't much water on the course like there is now and that the driving range changed some holes.  The punchbowl par 3 is interesting regardless of whether it is original.

Rees,

Agreed. it's a very non-routine hole. I look forward to seeing your aerials. Could you e-mail them to me as well?

Thanks
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Mike_Young

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Re: What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2015, 09:20:49 PM »
I'm not sure there is much Raynor left.  Ron Kirby was there in the late 70's or early 80's and then Brian came in later.  My father-in-law was the supt there for around 10 years from late 70's until around 86.  I have many of his photos of various things but just don't recall much Raynor.  I do know they are really into the flowers....
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2015, 09:58:14 PM »
Here's a 1938 Aerial of the course (from the Nov. 20, 1938 edition of The Palm Beach Post) -

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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: What do we know about Raynor's design of The Everglades Club
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2015, 12:54:34 PM »
All,

My information has nothing to do with golf course architecture at Everglades Club.
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