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Cedarbrook Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1909
Architect:W.F. Mitchell
General Information
Address: 180 Penllyn Pike
Blue Bell, PA  19422
Phone:(215) 646-9410
Fax:(215) 646-1194
Website:www.cedarbrookcc.org
Email:cedarbrookcc@cedarbrookcc.com
Club Contacts
  Clubhouse Manager:   Bucky Scott   (215) 646-9410 
  Golf Professional:   Ronald R. Pine   (215) 643-3560 
  General Manager:   William R. Beisel Jr.   (215) 646-9410 
  Superintendent:   Tim Kelly   (215) 646-9410 
Club Events
2021 Jun 14  GAP BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship   
2020 Oct 14  GAP Volunteers Day 
2019 Jul 15  GAP USGA Amateur Qualifier (2)   
2019 Aug 5  GAP The Deeg Sezna   
2018 Aug 20  GAP USGA Mid-Amateur Qualifier (1)   
2016 Aug 29  GAP USGA Senior Amateur Qualifier   
2016 Aug 29  GAP USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Qualifier   
2015 Jul 20  GAP USGA Amateur Qualifier   
2015 Nov 10  GAP Winter Series Event - Cedarbrook Country Club   
2014 Oct 3  GAP Tournament of Champions   
2014 Nov 18  GAP Winter Series Event - Cedarbrook Country Club 
2013 Aug 8  GAP Joseph H. Patterson Cup    
2012 May 16  GAP Pro-Pres., Golf & Green 
2012 Aug 20  GAP Tee it Forward - Fall Net Championship   
2011 May 18  GAP Pro-Pres., Golf & Green 
2011 Aug 16  GAP Parent/Child League North #1   
2011 Nov 9  GAP Winter Series Event #7   
2009 Aug 19  GAP Marston Cup   
2008 Aug 25  GAP USGA Senior Amateur Qualifier   
2005 Jun 14  GAP Amateur Championship   
2005 Jun 14  GAP Amateur Championship Qual. 
2004 Jun 7  GAP Team Championship Qualifier   

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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

FAMILY GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  28.7 101  29.1  99 57.8 100 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 160230184174110259145197451504220192275721841454519717415043008
 HCP 10841862121416 9113151517713  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.8 126  36.2  128 72.0 127 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 376502386359185540392406169331548836349618842338916641836432956610
 HCP    
BLUE/WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.2 125  35.4  127 70.6 126 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 376478374359153540344406169319948836346513442337316639036431666365
 HCP    
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.5 123  35.0  122 69.5 123 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 367478374326153517344326150303545034946513438337313439033830166051
 HCP    
RED TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.2 118  34.0  117 67.2 118 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 344424348317118510294280124275941031744112337735010836630527975556
 HCP    
FAMILY BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  30.2 107  30.5  105 60.7 106 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 22028024621511035519526512420103252553608519518011026523520104020
 HCP 10841862121416 9113151517713  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.7 130  37.7  137 74.4 134 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 391524415372202563409416209350154239056121044142917944538935867087
 HCP    
BLACK/BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.2 127  36.9  132 73.1 130 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 454435443365453443443672
 Yards 391524386372185563392416169339854236356118844138917941838934706868
 HCP    
History
Today’s Cedarbrook Country Club is a direct outgrowth of Stenton Country Club, which was founded in 1909 and played its golf on leased ground near Stenton Avenue and Washington Lane in the Chestnut Hill section of the city. But within 10 years this land had grown substantially in value. Unable to renew its lease, the club examined a number of sites in North Philadelphia, and in 1919 purchased a tract known then as Cedarbrook Farm. It was bounded by Cheltenham Avenue, Easton Road and Limekiln Turnpike.
The Stenton members who led the move north were George M. Bridgeman, W.G. McKechney, John E. Wick, Al Pierce, Porter Paine, and A. Raymond Raff. A decision was made to rename the organization Cedarbrook Country Club. Michael Hanson was elected president. He was succeeded by George Bridgeman.
A.W. Tillinghast was commissioned to lay out the course. Though most of the designs for which he would become celebrated were still several years in the future, he had already fashioned two of his best, the eighteens at San Francisco Golf Club and at Somerset Hills, in northern New Jersey. While the 45-year-old Tillinghast was bringing his talents to bear here on gently rolling land that had been used chiefly for grazing cattle, the members, whose lease had expired at the Stenton Avenue course in late summer of 1920, were temporarily playing their golf at Sandy Run, thanks to a special arrangement with that hospitable club.
On the Fourth of July 1921, the course and clubhouse in Cheltenham Township were formally opened. J. Hampton Moore, Mayor of Philadelphia, personally raised the club emblem to the top of the flagpole and, in a brief address, predicted a long and prosperous life for Cedarbrook. He did not guarantee that the club would stay put.

Cedarbrook’s clubhouse as it appeared in the mid-1940s, when the club was located in Cheltenham
It was in the late 1920s that Donald Ross was brought in to revise the Tillinghast design. By and large, the original routing plan was retained. But holes were lengthened, bunkering was made more stringent, and a creek brought more prominently into play. One of only two Philadelphia courses designed by the great Tillinghast now also bore the stamp of the great Ross. Nobody’s design was sacred. And in the years to come, numerous additional changes were effected, some aimed at toughening the layout, others with a view toward eliminating what some judged to be unfairly penal situations. It was here in 1947 that the 4th Annual Inquirer Invitation was held, with Ben Hogan dueling Bobby Locke.
During the 1940s, Temple University offered on three occasions to purchase the club property for a second campus. Each time the club declined. In 1955, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as part of its highway program, acquired, through condemnation, 20 1/2 acres of Cedarbrook’s land for use in the construction of the Route 309 Expressway. Serious consideration was at first given to revising the course and rehabilitating the clubhouse, but in September, 1958, a resolution to sell the property for the specific purpose of relocation was passed by the membership.
Four years later, in June 1962, a new Cedarbrook course designed by Massachusetts’ William F. Mitchell in consultation with William F. Gordon, of Doylestown, would open in Blue Bell.
For more on Cedarbrook’s history, check out the Golf Association of Philadelphia Magazine piece on the club’s centennial, which appeared in the Winter 2009 edition.

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