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Wilmington Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1901
Architect:North - Robert Trent Jones
South - Robert Trent Jones
General Information
Address: 4825 Kennett Pike
Wilmington, DE  19807
Phone:(302) 655-6171
Fax:(302) 655-1706
Website:www.wilmingtoncc.com
Email:mshank@wilmingtoncc.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Michael Shank   (302) 655-6022 
  General Manager:   Philip S. Iannelli   (302) 655-6171 
  Superintendent:   Jon Urbanski   (302) 655-3337 
Club Events
2017 Aug 9  GAP Joseph H. Patterson Cup    
2012 Sep 19  GAP Senior Amateur Championship   
2011 Oct 5  GAP Senior Challenge Matches   

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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9North
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.1 125  36.2  124 71.3 125 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444454343355344443453671
 Yards 326368383415472377188366184307954016235540531641918538454333096388
 HCP 1113591717315 21410618416128  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9North
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.3 124  35.5  126 69.8 125 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444454343355344443453671
 Yards 310348370390457367166355168293153015034038830039216535053231476078
 HCP 1113591717315 21410618416128  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9North
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.4 117  33.3  119 66.7 118 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444454343355344443453671
 Yards 289329359355440356124312152271644613532333628132015131545327605476
 HCP 1113591717315 21410618416128  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9North
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.9 119  33.9  122 67.8 121 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444454343355344443453671
 Yards 310329359355457367166312168282344615034033630032016535045328605683
 HCP 1113591717315 21410618416128  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9South
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.5 136  36.3  133 72.8 135 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445344344354443545343671
 Yards 428400584150412367176461427340540634237417955539555819939834066811
 HCP 5131915111737 16186121482104  
SENIOR HYBRID TEESFront 9Back 9South
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.5 126  34.6  126 69.1 126 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445344344354443545343671
 Yards 404387568138365288164347333299433831636016354036747614234730496043
 HCP 5131915111737 16186121482104  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9South
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.6 134  35.4  129 71.0 132 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445344344354443545343671
 Yards 404387568138365348164425412321136531636016354036753317838332056416
 HCP 5131915111737 16186121482104  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9South
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  37.9 145  38.0  139 75.9 142 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445344344354443545343671
 Yards 444428632166495386202488492373343739141720258241164722644237557488
 HCP 5131915111737 16186121482104  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9South
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.0 121  33.8  119 67.8 120 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445344344354443545343671
 Yards 404387430138306348164347333285733831631114944536747614234728915748
 HCP 5131915111737 16186121482104  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9South
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  32.6 116  33.6  118 66.2 117 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445344344354443545343671
 Yards 279316430122306288146347333256733827431114944534147614234728235390
 HCP 5131915111737 16186121482104  
History
Golf came to Wilmington in 1895, when the Delaware Field Club, successor to the Delaware Cricket Club, built a nine-hole course near Elsmere. Six years later the Field Club, which also provided baseball, football, tennis, and cricket, evolved into the Wilmington Country Club. Stock was offered in the new organization at $25 a share, but no specific number of shares was required for membership. Annual dues were set at $25.
The land for the new club, 129 acres, was situated on the south side of what was then known as the Kennett Turnpike and within a four-minute walk of the Rising Sun terminus of the Wilmington City Railway. William du Pont, Sr., owned most of this land, which today includes Wilcastle Center as well as a public golf course and the playing fields of nearby Tower Hill School. Another du Pont, Alfred, was among the club’s first directors.


Contemporary photo of Wilmington’s handsome Georgian clubhouse and the 18th fairway of the South course.
With the green committee providing a routing plan for the holes, 25 workers using eight horses cleared a wheat field and built the nine-hole course in the space of seven or eight weeks during the summer of 1901. Cost: $2,000. Much of the acreage was being reserved for growing income-producing wheat, but after the wheat was harvested, and the net from farming turned out to be quite modest, the board decided to forego that source of revenue and expand the course to 18 holes. For an outlay of only $850, and within just three weeks, nine additional holes were created.
The course measured 5,700 yards against a par of 72 1/2. At 3,010 yards, the outgoing nine was much the longer of the two, with the par 5 1/2 8th (575 yards) surely among the half-dozen longest holes in the district at that time. A glance at the scorecard today of the club’s splendid South course reveals that this penchant for the truly big hole is still alive and well at Wilmington: the third is 589 yards, the 16th, 612.
Less than a year after play began on the original nine, a "purpose built" clubhouse opened its doors. A handsome red-brick Georgian-style structure, pedimented and porticoed and columned, it was also supremely comfortable. Construction of a caddie house and stables, plus the expense of furnishing the grand clubhouse, brought the total outlay to $27,000. Clearly, shelter and socializing were a lot more costly than golf.
Membership categories consisted of resident (limited to men and including, by 1903, 12 du Ponts), associate (ladies only—more than 200 of them by 1903—and also including 12 du Ponts), army and navy, clergy, active, junior, and non-resident ("persons not residing within 10 miles of the clubhouse"—a number here from Philadelphia as well as down-state Delaware). What it all added up to was more than 500 names, the second largest such golf or country club membership in the Philadelphia/South Jersey/Delaware area in the first years of the new century. (The largest? Frankford Country Club, with some 50 more members than Wilmington.)

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