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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 
Club Events
2023 Thursday, July 27  GAP Patterson Cup Qualifier 
2022 May 12  GAP U.S. Open Qualifier (3)   
2012 Jun 20  GAP Open Championship Qualifier   
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.3 132  36.6  140 71.9 136 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 398514180504151378201415361310235750044017642336737917756433836485
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.9 130  35.9  138 70.8 134 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 382509160488146366195407356300934648442715841932937015354232286237
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.7 126  34.5  131 68.2 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 317469101457134354182379355274833342237914441230335713142629075655
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
RED TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.1 125  34.1  129 67.2 127 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 313466105414134302170374355263332742236312340929233612842628265459
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
BLUE/WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.1 131  36.4  139 71.5 135 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 382514160504151378195407361305235750042717641936737017754233356387
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
WHITE/GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.5 129  34.7  132 69.2 131 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 382469160488134366182379356291634642237914441232935715342629685884
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
ORANGE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  31.8 119  32.3  122 64.1 121 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 315365105408134230125328310232028036534012534822022212838924174737
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
RED/ORANGE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  32.2 122  33.0  124 65.2 123 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 453534344354543444353671
 Yards 313365105408134302125328355243528042234012340922022212842625705005
 HCP 3711151139517 16122861014184  
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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