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Burlington Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1929
Architect:John Finley
General Information
Address: 170 Burrs Road
Mt. Holly, NJ  08060
Phone:(609) 267-1886
Fax:(609) 267-4934
Website:www.bcc-golf.com
Email:burlctyclub@comcast.net
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Michael Mack   (609) 267-1887 
  General Manager:   Michelle Morrell   (609) 267-1886 
  Superintendent:   Jeremy Dilks   (609) 267-1887 
Club Events
2022 Tues, July 5  GAP Joseph H. Patterson Cup Qualifier 
2021 May 11  GAP BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship Qualifier   
2019 May 2  GAP Francis B. Warner Cup (Gross)   
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.2 124  35.3  130 71.5 127 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434534444353434544443570
 Yards 404205382479138391462400430329113432317442252737942239831030896380
 HCP 5137171591113 18161246821014  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.4 119  34.4  125 69.8 122 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434534444353434544443570
 Yards 388182357462127379439379394310713031015139549335338436927928645971
 HCP 5137171591113 18161246821014  
SILVER TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.8 114  32.7  123 66.5 119 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434534444353434544443570
 Yards 330167341442110313380352333276812728612634643129535534824725615329
 HCP 5137171591113 18161246821014  
COMBO TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.7 118  33.5  124 68.2 121 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434534444353434544443570
 Yards 336180342462125378382378393297612932014040143230238036527827475723
 HCP 5137171591113 18161246821014  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.8 127  36.1  132 72.9 130 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434534444353434544443570
 Yards 416212404503147415467413438341513533219346355439244841131532436658
 HCP 5137171591113 18161246821014  
BLUE/WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.8 121  34.9  126 70.7 124 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 434534444353434544443570
 Yards 404205382479138379439400394322013432315139552737938439831030016221
 HCP 5137171591113 18161246821014  
History
In mid-1929, within months of the stock market crash and thus on the eve of the Depression, a group of men from Mt. Holly and neighboring towns who had a yen to play golf on their own course, banded together to form the Burlington County Country Club. The first thing needed was money to buy suitable land. Bonds in the amount of $1,000 were issued. Thirty-one people each bought a bond, and the club moved immediately to acquire the Burrs Woods property, two miles from Mt. Holly. Charles Coles, of Mt. Holly, was elected president of the new club. Filling the vice-presidential post was W.C. Jones, of Burlington. William A. Stringfellow, Mt. Holly, was named secretary.
At the beginning, only two types of memberships were offered. Those in a position to hand over $1,000 could buy a bond entitling them to all club privileges, a dues-free lifetime membership, and no initiation fee. Moreover, the next generation would inherit it all. On the other hand, a new member could choose to buy a share of stock for $100 and pay a $150 initiation fee and $150 yearly dues. Somehow, resolutely limping along through the hard times, Burlington County stayed solvent.
One annual fund-raising project in the early years was the horse show sponsored by the club and held at the English Setter Club, near Medford. The revenues came from selling hot dogs and cold drinks as well as from such take-out dishes as homemade pies and jellies. Dances, to the tunes of a three-piece combo, were a regular feature on the clubhouse veranda (the concrete floor was a little hard on the feet) during the summer months. In the winter there were often sledding parties on the course’s rolling terrain, with hot cocoa afterwards.
A nine-hole course, laid out by the John Finley Golf Construction Company, of Philadelphia, opened for play in 1930. A year later, the second nine was added. The unwatered fairways regularly burned out under the hot summer sun, but the greens, syringed by hand, if necessary, under the careful supervision of John Plant, the club’s first greenkeeper, were always excellent putting surfaces. Two or three of the club’s oldest members affectionately recall Mrs. Plant’s lemonade, which she sold for 5¢ a glass.
In 1934, with membership dropping, annual dues for a family were reduced from $90 to $60. The individual male dues, formerly $75, were cut to $50. In the depths of the Depression, membership numbered about 130.
A simple farmhouse served as the clubhouse at the outset, and a number of members employed their mechanical skills—carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, and the like—to convert the basement into a "rathskeller." The first time alcoholic beverages were consumed on the premises was when a member gave the steward $5 to go out and buy a case of beer. It sold in no time. A second case was promptly purchased with the profit produced by the individual bottle sales from the first case—all this without a liquor license. It was obvious that a license was essential, so steps were taken to get one. The arrival of the license, however, prompted the departure of the president. Charles Coles, who strongly opposed spirits in any form, felt compelled in principle to resign. He was succeeded by Pliver M. Thornton, who served until the early Forties.
Over the years, the clubhouse would be expanded and remodeled extensively, beginning in the early Thirties, when a men’s locker room was added. This was built with a flat roof to accommodate a second story. Sixty years later, in 1993, that kind of visionary thinking would finally pay off, when an addition above the locker room was indeed constructed.
The first golf shop at Burlington County may well have been unique. When in the Thirties the Mt. Holly Water Company decided to build a new headquarters, it gave its old office building to the country club. Arthur C. Cross, Sr., then president of the water company and a club member, saw to it that the simple structure was hauled from town out to the club, where it was put right to work as the pro shop for Bill Miller, Burlington’s first professional.

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