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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]  [Womens]

BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.9 141  36.7  137 72.6 139 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 358404496388145333513186363318653238634339241114551618838632996485
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  37.1 146  37.7  141 74.8 144 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 392458510399174367535223387344555840336642143416653620145635416986
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.1 138  35.2  136 70.3 137 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 336394490360125313481177332300850635730237436013550618434630706078
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
GOLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.3 136  34.1  130 68.4 133 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 315330487352100301483168299283547929827234735313248117627628145649
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  32.8 128  33.0  127 65.8 128 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 27831840928290269420140292249843527227031435310542614027025855083
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
JUNIOR TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  30.2 115  30.4  101 60.6 108 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 1882352491989918727913319317612311921812202179926313321717533514
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.7 132  33.9  130 67.6 131 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 315330411352100301423168299269947929827234735313248114527627835482
 HCP 1359171711153 14610281812164  
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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