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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 TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
28.7
101
29.1
99
57.8
100
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
160
230
184
174
110
259
145
197
45
1504
220
192
275
72
184
145
45
197
174
1504
3008
HCP
10
8
4
18
6
2
12
14
16
9
11
3
15
1
5
17
7
13
BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.8
126
36.2
128
72.0
127
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
376
502
386
359
185
540
392
406
169
3315
488
363
496
188
423
389
166
418
364
3295
6610
HCP
BLUE/WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.2
125
35.4
127
70.6
126
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
376
478
374
359
153
540
344
406
169
3199
488
363
465
134
423
373
166
390
364
3166
6365
HCP
WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
34.5
123
35.0
122
69.5
123
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
367
478
374
326
153
517
344
326
150
3035
450
349
465
134
383
373
134
390
338
3016
6051
HCP
RED TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.2
118
34.0
117
67.2
118
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
344
424
348
317
118
510
294
280
124
2759
410
317
441
123
377
350
108
366
305
2797
5556
HCP
FAMILY BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
30.2
107
30.5
105
60.7
106
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
220
280
246
215
110
355
195
265
124
2010
325
255
360
85
195
180
110
265
235
2010
4020
HCP
10
8
4
18
6
2
12
14
16
9
11
3
15
1
5
17
7
13
BLACK TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
36.7
130
37.7
137
74.4
134
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
391
524
415
372
202
563
409
416
209
3501
542
390
561
210
441
429
179
445
389
3586
7087
HCP
BLACK/BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
36.2
127
36.9
132
73.1
130
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
36
5
4
5
3
4
4
3
4
4
36
72
Yards
391
524
386
372
185
563
392
416
169
3398
542
363
561
188
441
389
179
418
389
3470
6868
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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