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Sandy Run Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1923
Architect:J. Franklin Meehan
General Information
Address: 200 East Valley Green Road
Oreland, PA  19075
Phone:(215) 233-0666
Fax:(215) 233-1404
Website:www.sandyruncc.com
Email:sroffice@comcast.net
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Peter Lovenguth   (215) 233-0666 
  General Manager:   Joseph Wurtz   (215) 233-0666 
  Superintendent:   Alex Lennertz   (215) 885-3063 
Club Events
2022 Mon, July 18  GAP Jock MacKenzie Memorial 
2021 Jul 19  GAP Jock MacKenzie Memorial   
2020 Mar 18  GAP Winter Series Event - 3 
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.6 131  36.0  135 71.6 133 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 345194441328418366311545308325612861316938242148738738733633106566
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.8 129  35.1  130 69.9 130 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 319186408309375360301530297308512356115636140344337537131731106195
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.3 126  34.7  128 69.0 127 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 317175380288367353291508290296911855414334240542336835930530175986
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
BLUE/WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.1 130  35.5  132 70.6 131 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 345186408328375366311530308315712856116936140348738737133632036360
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
WHITE/GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.5 127  34.9  130 69.4 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 319175380309367360301508297301612355415634240344337535931730726088
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
GOLD/RED TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.7 124  34.0  126 67.7 125 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 317169322288319353291492290284111848514333537042336832730528745715
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
RED TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.3 122  33.4  123 66.7 123 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434444454363534454443672
 Yards 295169322268319319277492287274811548512533537036833032727327285476
 HCP 1593517111317 18214641012816  
History
J. Franklin Meehan was a born entrepreneur. He dearly loved to start something from scratch. In some instances, as at Ashbourne and Spring Ford, a new golf club that had acquired ground would call him in to lay out the course, a rewarding assignment that enabled him to put his personal imprint on the raw land. But it was not quite so satisfying as conceiving the idea for a club, finding the property, laying out the course, bringing together a number of kindred souls, and actually running the club during its formative years. This he did at North Hills. And then, more than 15 years later and virtually next door, he undertook to do it again.

"Arlington," Sandy Run’s original clubhouse, was the residence of Irene duPont Hendrickson Ralph. Demolished in 1954, the house was situated in an area where the club’s main practice green is located today.
The new club was chartered in June 1923, under the name of the Edge Hill Golf Club. Signing the certificate of incorporation were Leonard W. Brown, A. J. Murdoch, Harry F. Beck, F. E. Taylor, J. Russell Breitinger, Parke Weikert, A.R. McConnell, Norman V. Holmes, W.H. Calverley, and W. Nelson Mayhew. Edge Hill subsequently acquired a part of the former I. D. H. Ralph estate, 115 acres "situate near Camp Hill Station, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, at the southeast corner of Valley Green and Walnut Roads." The club paid exactly $1,000 per acre for this parcel. In order to consummate the deal, meet the mortgage payments, and make the necessary improvements (golf course and clubhouse), the members each subscribed to a $500 bond. They had a choice of the Cash Payment Plan (hand over the $500 in one lump sum); the Yearly Payment Plan (five installments of $100 each, the first payment to be made on March 15,1924, the four remaining installments due Oct. 15 in 1924-27); or the Monthly Payment Plan. A member had to have a pretty good head for figures in order to keep the Monthly Payment Plan straight: $35 on March 15, 1924; $15 on April 15, 1924; $10 on the 15th of May, June, July, August, and September.
Frank Meehan laid out a tight and varied 18-hole course—the topography was rolling but not hilly, lending itself nicely to holes with an attractive naturalness about them. Scottish-born John B. Carruthers was retained as the club’s first golf professional. In 1927, taking its name from the stream that runs through the property—and today lends considerable character to the par-5 8th—the club became Sandy Run Country Club. Frank Meehan remained in office as president until 1936, when he was succeeded by William A. Crooke.

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