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Country Club of Scranton

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1896
Architect:North Course - Walter Travis
General Information
Address: 1001 Morgan Hwy
Clarks Summit, PA  18411
Phone:(570) 586-2311
Fax:(570) 586-3925
Website:www.ccscranton.com
Email:ccscranton@epix.net
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Michael W. Molino   (570) 587-3514 
  General Manager:       (570) 586-2311 
  Superintendent:   Aaron Giordano   (570) 587-8531 
Club Events
2021 Monday, August 2  GAP AGA/GAP Lawler Junior Tour Series - Div 2 - Event #7 
2021 Mon-Tues, September 13-14  GAP Senior Amateur Championship   
2019 May 13  GAP USGA Open Qualifier (4)   
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9North Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.4 127  36.6  141 73.0 134 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 534454434364435344443571
 Yards 520167340375489444424144419332242043218251422546242632634333306652
 HCP 3151311159177 12218810641416  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9North Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.0 127  36.4  130 72.4 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 534454434364435344443571
 Yards 520160340375474430416144395325440240418251420546239929834332096463
 HCP 3151311159177 12218810641416  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9North Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.6 125  35.3  130 70.9 128 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 534454434364435344443571
 Yards 509150327362463418410137381315739137117349019543638327332930416198
 HCP 3151311159177 12218810641416  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9North Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.6 121  34.3  128 68.9 125 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 534454434364435344443571
 Yards 463136303352440400386126335294136332016346617541736926131928535794
 HCP 3151311159177 12218810641416  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9North Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.3 115  32.8  119 66.1 117 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 534454434364435344443571
 Yards 428127238322423338353111310265033027615846016038532924728926345284
 HCP 3151311159177 12218810641416  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Old Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.6 141  38.1  139 74.7 140 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443534444354354544353772
 Yards 420432182514225462426326343333040616148436658342047624856037047034
 HCP 1111795731315 81814106241612  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Old Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.4 130  37.6  140 74.0 135 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443534444354354544353772
 Yards 402404182514205462399298343320940616148436653042045922053035766785
 HCP 1111795731315 81814106241612  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Old Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.3 130  36.4  137 71.7 134 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443534444354354544353772
 Yards 391371173490195436383273329304139114139036651540542619550233316372
 HCP 1111795731315 81814106241612  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Old Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.3 128  35.7  130 70.0 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443534444354354544353772
 Yards 363320163466175417369261319285338613837034849138542118145931796032
 HCP 1111795731315 81814106241612  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9Old Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  32.8 119  34.8  125 67.6 122 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443534444354354544353772
 Yards 330276158460160385329247289263436012139432548835039813844230165650
 HCP 1111795731315 81814106241612  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9South Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  38.1 139  36.4  127 74.5 133 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 435454435375344544343673
 Yards 406161484366583420476248560370452016734037548944442414441933227026
 HCP 7171159131513 41614210612188  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9South Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  37.6 138  36.0  126 73.6 132 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 435454435375344544343673
 Yards 406161484366530420459220530357652016034037547443041614439532546830
 HCP 7171159131513 41614210612188  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9South Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.4 137  35.6  125 72.0 131 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 435454435375344544343673
 Yards 391141390366515405426195502333150915032736246341841013738131576488
 HCP 7171159131513 41614210612188  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9South Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.7 130  34.6  121 70.3 126 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 435454435375344544343673
 Yards 386138370348491385421181459317946313630335244040038612633529416120
 HCP 7171159131513 41614210612188  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9South Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.8 125  33.3  115 68.1 120 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 435454435375344544343673
 Yards 360121394325488350398138442301642812723832242333835311131026505666
 HCP 7171159131513 41614210612188  
History
The Country Club of Scranton officially came into existence on Oct. 24, 1896, when its charter was recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, Lackawanna County. The number of directors was fixed at nine, and the first board consisted of the following men, all of them Scranton residents: J. Benjamin Dimmick, A.G. Hunt, J.W. Oakford, N.G. Robertson, W.W. Scranton, G.B. Smith, E.B. Sturges, T.H. Watkins, C.S. Weston. From the board came the club’s first slate of officers: N.G. Robertson, president; J. Benjamin Dimmick, vice president; A.G. Hunt, treasurer; and J.W. Oakford, secretary.
Records show that in 1901 the Pennsylvania Coal Company sold 10 acres on North Washington Avenue to the club for $10,000. As was the case in the sale of most other unmined coal lands, this one carried with it an important qualifier: for a period of 50 years, upon 18 months written notice and repayment of the purchase price, the Pennsylvania Coal Company could repossess the land in order to mine the underlying coal.
A New York City architect, L.C. Holden, was commissioned in 1896 to design the clubhouse. The cost of the structure was $5,521. In 1902, it was enlarged and additional buildings were constructed at a total cost of $18,532. Much of the first clubhouse was destroyed by fire in 1907. But it was promptly rebuilt to the original plans.
Nothing is known today about the original golf course other than that it had 18 holes and was only 4,273 yards long. It is probably safe to assume that it was a rather rudimentary layout. The club also boasted four tennis courts, one squash court and two bowling alleys. The alleys, it seems, were used only sparingly because skunks lived there in the winter and left a powerful and persistent odor that discouraged even the most avid bowlers.
Though the club had no difficulty attracting members and though it hosted annual golf and tennis tournaments that featured national figures in both sports, it did not prosper. The records for the first two decades of the century are, at best, sketchy. But there is nothing vague about the mortgage foreclosure by the Lackawanna County Trust Company in 1921. This was followed by a sheriff’s sale of a "two-story frame clubhouse building with sleeping quarters, kitchen, bowling alleys, locker rooms, squash courts, together with a caddy house and a repair shop." One Walter S. Stevens paid $354.17 for the property. Then, by quitclaim deed, the club transferred the land itself back to the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Still, the Country Club of Scranton somehow clung to life. And in 1925 its president, George Mitchell, appointed a committee to find land outside the city limits for a golf course. Why a site in South Abington and Newton Townships was chosen is not a matter of record. However, its scenic beauty, proximity to the city, and the fact that this was not mineable land were probably the key considerations. In any event, the club acquired 278 acres for $40,000, and within months bought an adjacent 19 acres.
Once again the club turned to New York for design talent, this time tapping the great Walter Travis, winner of the U.S. Amateur in 1900, 1901, and 1903, and the British Amateur in 1904, to lay out an 18-hole course. Travis had already gained considerable renown for his two eighteens at Westchester Country Club and for the delightful course at Ekwanok Country Club, in Vermont. Among his very last projects, the rolling-to-hilly Scranton 18 was completed in 1927, the year of his death. In 1983, it would be revised and updated by Geoffrey Cornish and Brian Silva, but the routing is still essentially that of Walter Travis.
A clubhouse was built here at the new location in 1929 at a cost of $183,167. The total expense of course and clubhouse was $481,659. It all seemed—in truth, it all was—a far cry from the sheriff’s sale only eight years earlier.
A postscript of some interest: in 1996, exactly one hundred years after its founding, the Country Club of Scranton would join the Golf Association of Philadelphia. By this time, it would also offer its members a third nine, laid out by Michael Hurdzan in 1991.

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