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Lehigh Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1928
Architect:William S. Flynn
General Information
Address: 2319 South Cedar Crest Blvd.
Allentown, PA  18103
Phone:(610) 433-7443
Fax:(610) 433-7189
Website:www.lehighcc.com
Email:gm@lehighcc.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Wayne Phillips   (610) 437-1451 
  General Manager:   Jennifer Felegy   (610) 258-6125 
  Superintendent:   Ryan Fogel   (610) 967-4643 
Club Events
2021 Wed, June 9  GAP Frank H. Chapman Memorial Cup (Gross)   
2020 Aug 20  GAP Women’s Spring Scramble 
2019 Sep 26  GAP USGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Qualifier   
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.9 135  36.2  131 73.1 133 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 439357230348403559221409442340845449740517636639117641845733406748
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.0 131  35.0  126 71.0 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 415339214327387529211378409320941848136415232635916540339930676276
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
PURPLE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.5 133  35.5  128 72.0 131 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 439357214348387529221378442331541849740515232639117641839931826497
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
LIGHT BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.1 127  34.4  124 69.5 126 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 401339167282353529211312409300341843735315232634415335939929415944
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.2 124  33.8  121 68.0 123 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 401310167282353486142312357281039243735312629534415335934828075617
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
PINK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.6 122  33.4  118 67.0 120 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 330310156282353444138312357268238543735312625234411735934127145396
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
RED TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.4 121  32.8  117 66.2 119 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 443445344354543443443570
 Yards 330302156279345444138302346264238540233210825231211734834125975239
 HCP 7119117131535 61210141621848  
History
At about the same time that Old York Road was launched, a club some 30 miles due north also came into existence. Lehigh Country Club filed its articles of incorporation in the latter part of 1910. Edward A. Soleliac was elected president. Other officers were George E. Holton, vice president; S. G. K. Stradley, secretary; and William W. Schantz, treasurer.
A 60-acre parcel of land known as the Dodson Farm, near Rittersville, was acquired, and construction of a nine-hole course and a clubhouse got underway early in 1911. And if the course itself was, like so many "starter" courses, rudimentary, the same could scarcely be said of the clubhouse. On the occasion of the grand opening, April 18, 1912, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported: "... One hundred and twenty-four feet long and splendidly equipped, the clubhouse, which is of Italian villa architecture, is handsome and commodious and luxuriously furnished. The three dining rooms can be thrown into one banquet hall capable of seating 250 people."

The original clubhouse of Lehigh Country Club — in the style of an Italian villa -- opened on April 18,1912
By this time, the club already had 350 resident members. Five years later, that number had climbed to 456, to say nothing of Junior and non-resident members. But by 1925, membership had declined to 349. The decrease was due principally to the fact that Northampton Country Club now had an 18-hole course, and so did the new club at Bethlehem, Saucon Valley Country Club. A nine-hole course was not going to be acceptable to Lehigh Country Club much longer.
Before the year was out, the club had acquired a new site. Located near Wieda’s Mill, it consisted of two properties, the Kemmerer and Kline farms, totaling 205 acres. Running through this pretty rolling countryside was the Little Lehigh River. Purchase price was $55,000.
On May 17, 1926, the board approved a contract with Toomey and Flynn (William Flynn had recently designed Cherry Hills, outside Denver, Colo., and the Cascades Course at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Va.) to design and build a course at a cost of $109,210. Within seven months, Toomey and Flynn completed their contract. However, all of 1927 and the first months of 1928 would be required to develop the course into playing condition, chiefly because heavy rains were to create a number of washouts—broad and deep gullies—to say nothing of the sinkhole that occurred when about a third of the 10th green dropped some six or seven feet. But on Memorial Day 1928, with the club’s president, C. R. Harned, driving the first ball, the 18 opened for play.

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