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Fox Hill Country Club
Course Information
Club Type:
Private
Founded:
1920
Architect:
A.W. Tillinghast
General Information
Address:
454 Tunkhannock Avenue
Exeter, PA 18643
Phone:
(570) 655-2239
Fax:
(570) 655-4274
Website:
www.foxhillcountryclub.net
Email:
sbradley@foxhillcountryclub.net
Club Contacts
Golf Professional:
Ross Brown
(570) 714-5665
General Manager:
Shane J. Bradley
(570) 655-2239
Superintendent:
Ronald C. Garrison
(570) 237-1047
Club Events
2022
Wednesday, April
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2022
Mon-Tues, July 25-26
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2022
Wednesday, August 24
GAP AGA/GAP Super-Senior Coal Scuttle Championship
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts: [
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GREEN TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.3
128
35.3
135
70.6
132
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
3
5
3
5
4
4
4
4
36
71
Yards
393
416
186
351
393
475
161
397
377
3149
366
125
468
205
511
345
354
376
369
3119
6268
HCP
7
1
15
3
17
11
13
5
9
6
18
10
8
12
14
16
2
4
SILVER TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
31.3
105
31.2
110
62.5
108
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
3
5
3
5
4
4
4
4
36
71
Yards
299
326
98
283
297
357
135
273
236
2304
252
87
331
158
382
234
247
282
255
2228
4532
HCP
7
1
15
3
17
11
13
5
9
6
18
10
8
12
14
16
2
4
GREEN/WHITE BLEND TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.0
128
34.5
132
69.5
130
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
3
5
3
5
4
4
4
4
36
71
Yards
393
394
172
351
393
475
161
397
362
3098
347
125
468
158
486
320
354
346
332
2936
6034
HCP
7
1
15
3
17
11
13
5
9
6
18
10
8
12
14
16
2
4
WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
34.1
124
34.0
125
68.1
125
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
4
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
3
5
3
5
4
4
4
4
36
71
Yards
363
394
172
319
380
438
153
361
362
2942
347
125
420
158
486
320
329
346
332
2863
5805
HCP
7
1
15
3
17
11
13
5
9
6
18
10
8
12
14
16
2
4
BLUE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.9
130
35.9
136
71.8
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
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
3
5
3
5
4
4
4
4
36
71
Yards
405
424
186
371
393
485
201
397
399
3261
367
161
487
245
527
345
354
376
369
3231
6492
HCP
7
1
15
3
17
11
13
5
9
6
18
10
8
12
14
16
2
4
BLACK TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
36.1
131
36.5
136
72.6
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
4
3
4
4
5
3
4
4
35
4
3
5
3
5
4
4
4
4
36
71
Yards
405
424
201
371
433
485
201
402
399
3321
367
173
494
275
527
379
370
388
379
3352
6673
HCP
7
1
15
3
17
11
13
5
9
6
18
10
8
12
14
16
2
4
History
Impromptu discussions about the feasibility of a country club for Pittston (Luzerne County, just about halfway between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre) took place at a number of small, informal gatherings prior to the war and then in the months following the Armistice. The movement gathered momentum early in 1920 and finally crystallized at a meeting held in Pittston on May 25,1920. Present were the following: Joseph Aschenbrand, Charles Berry, Charles Craig, C. P. Delahanty, W. M. Fay, Frank M. Foy, M.J. Frey, T. A. Gibbons, Dr. E. M. Holmes, W. E. Kearney, W. J. Kilgallen, Robert W. Langford, Dr. H. J. Lenahan, J. O’D. Mangan, Max Markus, H. J. Mullin, Sigmund Samuels, M. Schlosser, W. C. Sutherland, Dr. S. L. Underwood, A. T. Walsh, and K. P. Wilde.
A site selection committee and a membership committee were appointed. Both went to work with a will. Encouragingly, it soon became apparent that the interest in joining was scarcely confined to residents of Pittston; there were many from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre who found Fox Hill Country Club a very appealing opportunity.
Almost a month after the May 25 meeting, and after exploring a number of possibilities, the club chose its site, a rolling tract with an abundance of trees in what is now called Exeter. That was on June 23. On August 2, Scottish-born John Reid was retained to lay out and build a nine-hole course, which, most of the founding members believed, would surely be sufficient to meet the club’s needs for many years to come.
The first official meeting of the membership was held on September 24,1920, with 43 members on hand. Then it was that a permanent organization was established and that the club’s first officers and first board of governors was elected. Named to the key posts were Frank M. Foy, president; William J. Peck, vice president; Robert W. Langford, secretary; and W. C. Sutherland, treasurer. Joining these four men on the board of governors were Joseph Aschenbrand, W.M. Fay, W.E. Kearney, W. J. Kilgallen, J. L. Peck, and A. T. Walsh.
In the weeks that followed, with progress on the construction of the course now something tangible, something to be seen and savored by all who envisioned themselves taking up the game, interest in joining Fox Hill escalated sharply. By the end of this, the founding year— and with the nine holes still four or five months from completion—the club could point to a roster of 232 members.
On April 29, 1921, the course officially opened for play. Seven months later, on Thanksgiving Day, the clubhouse, which had been under construction for some months, welcomed its first members. By that time, however, it was already obvious that the nine-hole course was inadequate. Congestion had become a serious problem, particularly on weekends. A year later, A.W. Tillinghast was commissioned to lay out and build a second nine and to remodel the existing first nine.
The Tillinghast eighteen opened in the summer of 1924. Representing not only an enormous step beyond the rather unsophisticated Reid nine but also the work of one of the country’s four or five most esteemed course architects, it was wholeheartedly embraced by the membership. Now they could boast of a full eighteen, one of championship length (some 6,400 yards) and replete with challenge. As for the mine caves, whether come upon in the fairway or the rough, they offered the player a free lift (a local rule one would certainly expect at a founding club of the Anthracite Golf Association).
Fox Hill, like virtually every club, would have to struggle to keep its head above water during the Depression. Fortunately, it had John A. Allan, a wealthy businessman, to lead the crusade. Allan served as president through the very depths of the Depression—1935,1936,1937—determined to see to it, by dint of his personal resources, his influence in the community, and his force of character, that Fox Hill would remain a functioning private country club. With the support of a loyal though reduced membership, he was successful.
Of more than passing interest is the fact that precisely 75 years after its founding. Fox Hill Country Club would, in 1995, become a member of the Golf Association of Philadelphia.
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