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Sunnybrook Golf Club
Course Information
Club Type:
Private
Founded:
1914
Architect:
William Gordon
General Information
Address:
398 Stenton Avenue
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Phone:
(610) 828-9617
Fax:
(610) 828-1183
Website:
www.sunnybrook.org
Email:
proshop@sunnybrook.org
Club Contacts
Golf Professional:
Gregory W. Wingate
(610) 828-9631
General Manager:
William F. Garbacz Jr.
(610) 828-9617
Superintendent:
Nick Lubold
(610) 828-9631
Club Events
2021
Jul 21
GAP U.S. Amateur Qualifier (2)
2020
Jul 16
GAP U.S. Amateur Qualifier (2)
2018
Jul 10
GAP Parent/Child League
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts: [
Mens
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BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.9
141
36.7
137
72.6
139
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
358
404
496
388
145
333
513
186
363
3186
532
386
343
392
411
145
516
188
386
3299
6485
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
BLACK TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
37.1
146
37.7
141
74.8
144
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
392
458
510
399
174
367
535
223
387
3445
558
403
366
421
434
166
536
201
456
3541
6986
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.1
138
35.2
136
70.3
137
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
336
394
490
360
125
313
481
177
332
3008
506
357
302
374
360
135
506
184
346
3070
6078
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
GOLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
34.3
136
34.1
130
68.4
133
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
315
330
487
352
100
301
483
168
299
2835
479
298
272
347
353
132
481
176
276
2814
5649
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
GREEN TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
32.8
128
33.0
127
65.8
128
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
278
318
409
282
90
269
420
140
292
2498
435
272
270
314
353
105
426
140
270
2585
5083
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
JUNIOR TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
30.2
115
30.4
101
60.6
108
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
188
235
249
198
99
187
279
133
193
1761
231
192
181
220
217
99
263
133
217
1753
3514
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
GOLD TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.7
132
33.9
130
67.6
131
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
5
4
3
4
5
3
4
36
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
3
4
36
72
Yards
315
330
411
352
100
301
423
168
299
2699
479
298
272
347
353
132
481
145
276
2783
5482
HCP
13
5
9
17
1
7
11
15
3
14
6
10
2
8
18
12
16
4
History
By its own admission, "Sunnybrook was organized by six ’crusaders’ who defected from the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1913." All were prominent on the Philadelphia business and social scenes—William Findlay Brown, Charles T. Cowperthwait, James A. Janney, Jr., Samuel Y. Heebner, George C. Thomas, and Joseph S. Clark. What’s more, the last three were quite well known in golfing circles. Samuel Heebner had been president of the Golf Association of Philadelphia from 1899 to 1905. George Thomas had designed and built Whitemarsh Valley on his estate, Bloomfield Farm. And Joseph S. Clark was one of the three members of the Organizing Committee of Pine Valley Golf club.
There were two main considerations underlying the decision to found Sunnybrook. First, Philadelphia Cricket Club did not own the land on which its course was built at St. Martins. It belonged to the Houston estate, and since this ground had by now become extremely valuable for residential development, there was reasonable doubt as to the future of golf in this section of Chestnut Hill.
Second—and perhaps at least as compelling—what the "crusaders" were crusading for was a simple place where kindred spirits might get together for a game of golf on a good course. The club would be small—no worry about getting off the first tee and no crowding once you started the round. The problems associated with a large and diverse membership, the trappings of country club life— these would have no place here. Sunnybrook would be, in the purest sense, a golf club.
In July, 1913, the founders purchased a farm lying between Mill Road and Haws Lane, east of Church Road, in Flourtown. On March 7, 1914, the Sunnybrook Golf Club was chartered. The course, designed by Donald Ross, opened for play more than a year later, on Decoration Day (as it was always referred to then). May 30,1915. An old farmhouse just north of the 13th green served as the original clubhouse.
On Decoration Day, 1928, a new and larger clubhouse opened. And for nearly 30 more years golf was enjoyed here in Flourtown. The course possessed some outstanding holes. Both the 5th and 6th, long par 4s, required well-hit shots to carry the stream for which the club was named. The 13th, with the same creek meandering across the fairway, then edging up to the green, where willow trees grew, was lovely and testing. And the par-3 16th was memorable for its treacherous double-tiered green.
In 1954 a combination of circumstances, including the impending construction of the new Route 309, which would have claimed the 5th green and the land immediately surrounding it, prompted the club to seek a new location. Happily, a beautiful, rolling 135-acre site was found not far away, the old William Disston farm, in Plymouth Meeting.
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