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LuLu Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1912
Architect:Donald Ross
General Information
Address: 1600 Limekiln Pike
Glenside, PA  19038
Phone:(215) 884-5108
Fax:(215) 884-9177
Website:www.lulucc.com
Email:golfshop@lulucc.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Dennis Poiesz   (215) 576-7030 
  General Manager:   Jon Rusk   (215) 576-7030 
  Superintendent:   Chris Toporski   (215) 576-7030 
Club Events
2022 Wed., June 29  GAP Parent/Child (Younger)   
2021 GAP Winter Series Event - 4 
2021 Jun 2  GAP Father & Son (Middle)   
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.8 124  34.8  131 69.6 128 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 544343444355434434543671
 Yards 45632940792422160406400295296747933516042033012629649536930105977
 HCP 1395117731115 81018214161264  
SILVER TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.7 121  33.6  127 67.3 124 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 544343444355434434543671
 Yards 43631733275374155385390270273442431314741431010628444031727555489
 HCP 1395117731115 81018214161264  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.9 129  36.0  136 71.9 133 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 544343444355434434543671
 Yards 470352419129431173471409371322550933917042838916637151738632756500
 HCP 1395117731115 81018214161264  
COMBO TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.3 126  35.2  133 70.5 130 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 544343444355434434543671
 Yards 470352419129431173406409295308447933917042833016629651738631116195
 HCP 1395117731115 81018214161264  
History
A farm bordered by Limekiln Pike and Jenkintown Road was the birthplace of Lu Lu Country Club. George S. Cox owned the farm, and during the first decade of the new century he would invite his fellow Shriners from LuLu Temple, together with their families, to join him there for picnics on weekends. The LuLu Temple Automobile Club also met there for rallies. Dinners featuring roast pig and fried chicken were the high point of these gatherings, which also included horseshoe pitching and baseball games.

Aerial view of Lu Lu Country Club taken in September 1939
One Sunday in the summer of 1907, William H. Ward, who had just returned from a visit to England, showed up at the Cox farm with a golf club under his arm. Few of the picnickers had ever seen one, but in short order a number of them were demanding the chance to take a swipe at a golf ball. That farm’s days of producing corn and tomatoes were numbered.
In 1909, the golfing Shriners rented the farm from George Cox in order to build a nine-hole golf course. No amateur golf architect for them—no, indeed. Nothing would do but that they bring in the best—and best-known—course designer in America, Donald Ross. Ross, who was born in Dornoch, Scotland, and had learned the craft of course design there and at St. Andrews, had established his reputation on the strength of his outstanding layouts at Pinehurst, N.C. Now he was broadening his horizons, and LuLu Temple was among his earliest efforts outside Pinehurst. It was also his first course in Pennsylvania. Over the next 16 years, there would be 16 more Donald Ross courses built in the Keystone State.
A charter was granted by the commonwealth in the name of LuLu Temple Country Club in 1912. The club’s original officers were Charles Martin, president; Harry Dolfinger, vice president; Walter Scholes, treasurer; and William J. Geggis, secretary. In addition to the officers, six governors were named: Charles E. Schwartz, Samuel C. Magarvey, William Holt, William H. Enochs, John E. Fite, and the man who started it all, William H. Ward.
Six years later, the club acquired another parcel of land, on which the present clubhouse is located. Ross was again called in, this time to build an 18-hole course. There were few trees on this expanse of rolling farmland, so he used a number of bunkers, together with cunningly sloping and shaped green surrounds, to challenge the player. As trees were planted and grew to maturity over the years, some of the hazards were revised or removed. But the holes today are essentially those designed by Donald Ross almost exactly 80 years ago, the basic routing plan remains unchanged, and Lu Lu continues to be what it has always been, a course of charm and character and variety, a course that we never weary of playing.
To learn more about Lu Lu’s history, check out the Golf Association of Philadelphia Magazine’s profile of the club, which appeared in the Summer 2017 issue.

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