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Legacy Club at Woodcrest
Course Information
Club Type:
Private
Founded:
1929
Architect:
William S. Flynn
General Information
Address:
300 E. Evesham Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
Phone:
(856) 429-4300
Fax:
(856) 429-8325
Website:
thelegacyclub.com
Email:
jdimarco@thelegacyclub.com
Club Contacts
Golf Professional:
John F. DiMarco
(856) 428-1243
General Manager:
(856) 429-4300
Superintendent:
Patrick E. Lucas
(856) 429-0848
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts: [
Mens
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Womens
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RED TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
32.8
124
34.0
130
66.8
127
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
3
5
3
4
3
4
4
35
4
5
4
3
4
4
4
3
5
36
71
Yards
313
466
105
414
134
250
170
374
355
2581
327
422
363
123
409
292
321
128
426
2811
5392
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
34.7
129
35.9
137
70.6
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
5
3
5
3
4
3
4
4
35
4
5
4
3
4
4
4
3
5
36
71
Yards
382
509
160
488
146
315
195
407
356
2958
346
484
427
158
419
329
366
153
542
3224
6182
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.1
131
36.8
140
71.9
136
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
5
3
5
3
4
3
4
4
35
4
5
4
3
4
4
4
3
5
36
71
Yards
398
514
180
504
151
328
201
415
361
3052
357
500
440
176
423
367
407
177
564
3411
6463
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
GOLD TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.3
124
34.3
131
67.6
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
5
3
5
3
4
3
4
4
35
4
5
4
3
4
4
4
3
5
36
71
Yards
317
469
101
457
134
261
182
379
355
2655
333
422
379
144
412
303
328
131
426
2878
5533
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
History
Not all the speculating during the Roaring 20s was in securities. Some of it involved real estate. In 1925 J. Wesley Goldthorp, a Collingswood attorney and businessman, bought 1,200 acres of New Jersey farmland between Ellisburg and Berlin. He had reason to believe that the rapid transit system which then ran from Camden to Ashland would soon be extended to Berlin, making the property he had just acquired desirable for residential development. But when the stock market crashed and the economy turned sour, plans for the $8-million high-speed line extension were scrapped. There would be no houses built at that time in this neck of the woods.
An avid golfer, Goldthorp decided to build a course that would be open to the public and that would, at the very least, enable him to hold onto the land and keep the tax collector at bay.
Familiar with the work of Toomey and Flynn on the other side of the river, particularly at Rolling Green and Huntingdon Valley, he commissioned them to design and build the course. The original nine holes here opened in the late spring of 1930. The second nine was ready for play by the end of the season. The total cost of the eighteen was between $30,000 and $35,000.
Despite the difficult times, Woodcrest was immediately successful in attracting the daily fee player. It was surely the finest South Jersey course open to the public—varied, challenging, and boasting legendarily fierce rough. The Goldthorp family lived in the spacious old farmhouse, and the children, two boys and three girls, shared the responsibility for maintaining and operating the course. The sons functioned as starters, one at the 1st tee, the other at the 10th. The daughters could often be seen on tractors, mowing the fairways.
In late May 1936, the course was the site of a 54-hole stroke-play event called the 2nd P.G.A. Invitation Open (its predecessor had been held at Llanerch the previous year). Since such an event would provide plenty of publicity in the local press for this pay-as-you-play facility, Wes Goldthorp was eager to host it, so much so that he contributed to the prize fund and underwrote the sale of a large quantity of tickets. Though the field consisted principally of Philadelphia and South Jersey professionals and a dozen or so of the best amateurs, a number of the top golfers of the day: Paul Runyon, Craig Wood, Vie Ghezzi, Leo Diegel, and others were also on hand. Ghezzi, playing out of the Deal Golf Club, Deal, New Jersey, won easily with a 214 total. Host club pro Bruce Coltart tied for second with Ed Dudley at 219. Woody Platt captured low amateur honors at 229.
Woodcrest’s original clubhouse had been the Goldthorp family home.
In 1946 a small group of young Camden County business and professional men, led by Robert Galanter, Louis Salsburg, and Carl Auerbach, spoke to Wes Goldthorp about buying the course and turning it into a private club. He declined their proposal. Since the Iron Rock Course, another green fee operation, was available, the group bought it for $100,000. Crest Hollow Country Club was then organized, but its members realized from the outset that the course they had just acquired was a far cry from the outstanding William Flynn layout at Woodcrest. Little more than a year later, Goldthorp was again approached. This time he was receptive, agreeing to a price of $118,750 for his property. So Iron Rock (Crest Hollow) was sold and Woodcrest was bought. And on April 21, 1948, at a general membership meeting, the club voted to change its name from Crest Hollow Country Club to Woodcrest Country Club. Joseph Galanter became the club’s first president, and the first clubhouse was the farmhouse in which the Goldthorp family had lived for almost 20 years.
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