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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 TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.3
132
36.6
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
378
201
415
361
3102
357
500
440
176
423
367
379
177
564
3383
6485
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
34.9
130
35.9
138
70.8
134
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
366
195
407
356
3009
346
484
427
158
419
329
370
153
542
3228
6237
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
33.7
126
34.5
131
68.2
129
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
354
182
379
355
2748
333
422
379
144
412
303
357
131
426
2907
5655
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
RED TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.1
125
34.1
129
67.2
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
302
170
374
355
2633
327
422
363
123
409
292
336
128
426
2826
5459
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
BLUE/WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.1
131
36.4
139
71.5
135
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
514
160
504
151
378
195
407
361
3052
357
500
427
176
419
367
370
177
542
3335
6387
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
WHITE/GOLD TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
34.5
129
34.7
132
69.2
131
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
469
160
488
134
366
182
379
356
2916
346
422
379
144
412
329
357
153
426
2968
5884
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
ORANGE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
31.8
119
32.3
122
64.1
121
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
315
365
105
408
134
230
125
328
310
2320
280
365
340
125
348
220
222
128
389
2417
4737
HCP
3
7
11
15
1
13
9
5
17
16
12
2
8
6
10
14
18
4
RED/ORANGE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
32.2
122
33.0
124
65.2
123
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
365
105
408
134
302
125
328
355
2435
280
422
340
123
409
220
222
128
426
2570
5005
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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