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West Chester Golf & Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1898
Architect:Karl Litten
General Information
Address: 111 West Ashbridge Street
West Chester, PA  19380
Phone:(610) 696-0150
Fax:(610) 696-1333
Website:westchestercc.net
Email:mmatzik@westchestercc.net
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Duke Matzik   (610) 692-2161 
  General Manager:       (610) 696-0150 
  Superintendent:   Eric Houck   (610) 430-8306 
Club Events
2020 Jul 27  GAP Junior-Junior Boys’ Championship 
2018 Jun 26  GAP Pre-Junior Event (1)   
2018 Jul 30  GAP Parent/Child League  
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLUE/GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.7 125  34.2  126 67.9 126 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 543444353354534443533570
 Yards 459402133366319336137475154278144043112336933234117145715228165597
 HCP 1731597113511 84181012261416  
RED/WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  32.4 117  32.8  115 65.2 116 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 543444353354534443533570
 Yards 428366115357298240141413145250343237411636030332714139614825975100
 HCP 1731597113511 84181012261416  
History
Like Springhaven, West Chester owed its formation at least in part to the efforts of a young woman. Miss Margaret Walter hosted the organizational meeting in her home in late September, 1898, and the gathering— some 35 people—was quick to name her secretary of the new club. The other officers were Carroll Brinton Jacobs, president; Dr. Charles R. Palmer, vice president; and Percy S. Darlington, treasurer. At a meeting shortly thereafter, a board of governors was named. It included the four officers plus the following five members: Josephine Roberts, William Chalfant, Benjamin W. Haines, Francis Jacobs, and Thomas W. Marshall.
The Golf and Country Club looked back to two predecessor organizations, the West Chester Cricket Club and its successor, the West Chester Country Club. During the summer prior to that first meeting at Miss Walter’s home, the Country Club did offer its members the opportunity to hit golf balls on a makeshift "links" north of Virginia Avenue. But the truth is that the Cricket Club and the Country Club were best known for their excellent baseball teams, which seemed regularly to take the measure of teams from Media and Downingtown and Coatesville.

West Chester’s 1908 clubhouse, which was destroyed by fire in 1911.
Golf began in earnest at the new club’s site, the Roselyn acreage south of Rosedale and west of Wilmington Pike, which the club leased for five years from Martin Darlington. Money was spent to remove rocks; to lay pipe and buy hose for watering the greens; to purchase a horse, a roller, and a lawn mower; and to hire a man to maintain the nine holes for "not more than" $20 per month. Routed over basically hilly country, much of which had been plowed ground, the course also enjoyed stretches of gently rolling terrain. It measured 2,769 yards against a par of 35 1/2.
In late May of 1906, the club voted to lease the Lowndes Taylor property for 20 years (average rental on this 55-acre tract, $431.25 per year) and build there a course and clubhouse. One reason given for moving to the new (present) site was unsuccessful lease negotiations with the landlord. That may have been a factor, but perhaps it was not the decisive one. For the new site was on the north side of town, where, conveniently, the majority of members lived. There would no longer be any need to hitch up the horses. Now the members could simply walk over to the club and tee off. The new course and clubhouse were soon built. So were two tennis courts. The total cost of all facilities, including the nine-hole golf course, came to something over $13,000. The course formally opened for play on April 1,1908.

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