ABOUT
MEMBERSHIP
HANDICAPPING
TOURNAMENTS
TEAM MATCHES
JUNIOR
PLATT
About GAP
Contact Us
Executive Committee
President’s Letter
Presidents
Volunteer Opportunities
GAP Magazine
FAQs
Association Honors
GAP Services
Meetings
1 MORE Campaign
Philling the GAP
Association Policies
Login/Register
Member Benefits
How to Join GAP
Member Club Benefits
Member Clubs
Associate Member Clubs
Affiliate Member Clubs
Golf Society
Slope & Course Ratings
Join/Renew Membership
Handicapping
Establish/Renew Your Handicap
Post a Score
Revision Schedule
Member Course & Slope Ratings
Handicap Services
USGA/Golf Genius Collaboration
Handicap Lookup
Tournament Handicap System
TrackMan
Tournament Schedule
AGA/GAP Tournaments
GAP Central Series
Member Play Days
Meetings/Seminars
Member Club Invitationals
Tournament Handicap System
Policies
Rules
Exemptions
Honorary Teams
Senior Club Team Challenge
Play Ready Pledge
Tournament History
Player Standings
Amateur Status
GAP Outing Central
BMW GTM History
2019 BMW GTM Schedule
BMW GTM Results
BMW GTM Champions
BMW GTM Score Sheets
BMW GTM Scouting Report
BMW GTM Playoff & Schedule
BMW GTM Rules & Regulations
Web posting directions
Club Policies
BMW GTM Important Dates
Junior Program
Schedule
Junior Standings
Williamson Cup
Pre-Junior
College Golf Seminar
College Corner
Player Policies
PLAY Golf
Mary’s Girls
Junior Players Club
Youth on Course
Member Clubs
Huntsville Golf Club
Course Information
Club Type:
Private
Founded:
1993
Architect:
Rees Jones
General Information
Address:
30 Hayfield Road
Shavertown, PA 18708
Phone:
(570) 674-6545
Fax:
(570) 674-9954
Website:
www.golf-huntsville.com
Email:
mocchiato@golf-huntsville.com
Club Contacts
Golf Professional:
Matt Occhiato
(570) 674-3673
General Manager:
Jeff Fry
(570) 674-6531
Superintendent:
Mark H. McCormick
(570) 675-3800
Club Events
2022
Thurs, June 23
GAP U.S. Junior Amateur Qualifier (2)
2022
Tuesday, August 30
GAP AGA/GAP Womens Coal Scuttle Championship
2022
Sun-Mon, September 24-25
GAP AGA/GAP Mens Coal Scuttle Championship
Click Here
to show all
view larger map
Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts: [
Mens
] [
Womens
]
BLACK TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
37.5
146
37.8
140
75.3
143
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
5
4
3
4
3
4
4
4
5
36
4
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
4
36
72
Yards
516
390
184
370
190
456
430
450
570
3556
413
439
502
444
552
213
387
176
453
3579
7135
HCP
11
13
15
17
9
1
5
3
7
12
2
8
10
6
14
16
18
4
GOLD TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
36.8
141
36.8
138
73.6
140
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
5
4
3
4
3
4
4
4
5
36
4
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
4
36
72
Yards
494
361
165
354
173
437
409
432
550
3375
393
422
488
423
479
195
369
169
432
3370
6745
HCP
11
13
15
17
9
1
5
3
7
12
2
8
10
6
14
16
18
4
WHITE TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.1
126
35.4
136
70.5
131
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
5
4
3
4
3
4
4
4
5
36
4
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
4
36
72
Yards
454
322
139
271
140
338
382
395
497
2938
368
375
439
380
442
158
347
149
402
3060
5998
HCP
11
13
15
17
9
1
5
3
7
12
2
8
10
6
14
16
18
4
RED TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.1
122
33.6
125
66.7
124
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
5
4
3
4
3
4
4
4
5
36
4
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
4
36
72
Yards
359
280
114
260
110
316
330
358
454
2581
295
358
390
331
368
136
326
118
338
2660
5241
HCP
11
13
15
17
9
1
5
3
7
12
2
8
10
6
14
16
18
4
GREEN TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
35.9
132
36.1
137
72.0
135
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
5
4
3
4
3
4
4
4
5
36
4
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
4
36
72
Yards
479
328
145
327
151
411
392
408
520
3161
373
399
473
404
460
165
361
153
409
3197
6358
HCP
11
13
15
17
9
1
5
3
7
12
2
8
10
6
14
16
18
4
SILVER TEES
Front 9
Back 9
Course
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Rating
Slope
Men
33.5
124
34.0
126
67.5
125
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
TOTAL
Par
5
4
3
4
3
4
4
4
5
36
4
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
4
36
72
Yards
388
299
114
266
110
319
333
358
454
2641
300
358
390
331
368
136
326
145
338
2692
5333
HCP
11
13
15
17
9
1
5
3
7
12
2
8
10
6
14
16
18
4
History
The one sure way to satisfy your golf course architect is to let him choose the land. That is what happened at Huntsville Golf Club, in Shavertown, Pennsylvania, and the result is yet another outstanding course.
Richard Maslow was convinced that Wilkes-Barre ought to have a first-rate golf club with a championship course. A successful businessman (metal and plastics fabricating), he went about creating his brainchild in a very businesslike way. In 1987, he hired a club-and-course consulting firm, The McLaughlin Group, to do a feasibility study based on an analysis of the private club situation in the area. "Jim McLaughlin came back to me," says Maslow, "and indicated that yes, an up-scale golf club did make sense. So I started to look for land and Jim recommended a number of architects, including Rees Jones."
The 1st hole at Huntsville is an inviting par 5
Having played a handful of Jones courses, Maslow felt confident that from Jones’ drawing board would come a layout which could challenge the world-class golfer and still be thoroughly enjoyable to the average club player.
Finding the right land was a lot tougher than finding the right architect. Maslow wanted Jones in on the search all the way, and the architect was pleased to oblige, especially since he was given veto power. As Ed Abrams reported in the Fall 1994 issue of
Philadelphia Golfer
, "Not once, not twice, but five times Jones traveled to Wilkes-Barre and toured sites, each time giving a thumbs down. Maslow confesses that his frustration was growing as the search dragged on into 1992, five years after the feasibility study. But his patience paid off with a 303-acre plot that looked like the real thing."
Jones said that he could lay out a good course on this land, but not a great one. He then urged Maslow to come up with some adjoining ground. Across the road were 170 acres for sale. Maslow promptly bought them and the architect now had at his disposal 473 acres of farmland and woodland. (The average good course is laid out on 150-160 acres.) There would be no housing lots to work around, and the topographical mix included highlands and valleys and rolling farmland, often demarcated by beautiful old stone walls. Jones says: "Huntsville has what I look for in a course site—graduated climbs, sweeping fields, and an abundance of natural features.... the charm of a course is not only how it plays, but how it feels, what types of vegetation and terrain it has, and what views it offers." The overall elevation change is 147 feet.
With five sets of tees, the course readily accommodates players of any skill level. Par is 72. From the championship tees, the course measures 7,120 yards. It is 5,400 yards from the forward markers. Members will generally choose to play it at either 6,130 or 6,480 yards.
On a course where no hole is less than good and every vista is little short of enthralling, we don’t have to wait long for an unforgettable moment. Carved out of a dense forest, the short par-4 2nd, only 330 yards from the middle tees, takes off from a towering tee—a launching pad, really—some 140 feet above the landing area. Sand flanking the spacious fairway is the architect’s first line of defense; then come the great evergreens and hardwoods. The hole doglegs neatly left to a green that is heavily bunkered.
So plentiful are the natural features—swales and hollows, falls and rises, trees and scrub—and so dramatic the elevation changes that Jones was not compelled to do as much "creating" as he otherwise might have. Still, his patented and links-like mounds and moguls do frame a number of holes.
Except for the 143-yard No. 3, where a stream crosses in front of the green, water hazards are confined to three of the four holes across the road on that additional piece of ground Jones felt to be essential. And what a magnificent stretch this is, 11 through 14. The 400-yard llth may well be an original. The player has the choice of the left-hand fairway or the right-hand fairway. Down the center is a line of trees and brush. The hole climbs into the prevailing wind and a stream crosses it some 60 yards short of the green. Sand imperils both the drive and the long second shot.
A large pond is the key feature of the 503-yard 12th, where the water lurks tight on the left to swallow the pulled second and the pulled third. The 410-yard 13th plays over a roller-coaster fairway to a green tightly framed left and right by sand. The #2 stroke hole, it is simultaneously strong and delightful, offering, as it does, a lovely grace note near the green: a natural spring well that is surrounded by an ancient stone wall.
Two streams cross the fairway on the 480-yard 14th, one to penalise the underhit drive, the other to penalise the underhit second. Sand threatens all three shots on this especially beautiful hole, which is sculpted out of the forest and the hills.
1994 was the first full year for the course. In addition to Richard Maslow, the owner and president, the club’s founding directors were Paul Lumia, David Hall, Richard Pearsall, and Richard Caputo. Tim Foran, former head professional at both Torresdale- Frankford and Wilmington, was named director of golf. It was he who urged the club to join the Golf Association of Philadelphia, which gives Huntsville members a number of excellent competitive opportunities as well as access to USGA-approved handicapping services
Ron Whitten, architecture editor for Golf Digest and Golf World, called Huntsville "an instant classic." In 1995, this superlative 18 finished second to Nebraska’s Sand Hills (Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, designers) in
Golf Digest’s
ranking of the best new private courses in the country. Clearly, the painstaking and patient Richard Maslow has accomplished what he set out to do.
[
Back to Listing
]
MY GAP LOCKER LOGIN
|
REGISTER
SECTION LINKS
Rules of Golf
About GAP
Handicapping
Tournament Schedule
BMW GTM Home
Junior Program
Platt Caddie Scholarship
Presidents’ Council
Breakfast Seminars
GAP
About GAP
Contact Us
Executive Committee
GAP Chat
Meetings
Login/Register
Join/Renew Membership
TOURNAMENTS
AGA/GAP Tournaments
GAP Central Tournaments
GAP Central Series
Outing Central
Tournament Schedule
Exemptions
Rules
Play Ready Pledge
Association Policies
HANDICAPPING
Establish/Renew Your Handicap
Post a Score
Member Course & Slope Ratings
OUR CLUBS
How to Join GAP
Member Club Benefits
Member Clubs
Individual Member Benefits
OTHER PROGRAMS
Youth Programs
Member Play Days
Platt Caddie Scholarship
PLAY Golf
CONNECT
GAP Magazine
The GAP App
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Copyright © 2022 The Golf Association of Philadelphia. All Rights Reserved.
Developed by
AppNet Solutions