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Riverton Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1900
Architect:Riverton - Donald Ross
General Information
Address: 1416 Highland Ave
Cinnaminson, NJ  08077
Phone:(856) 829-5500
Fax:(856) 829-1687
Website:www.therivertoncountryclub.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Kevin P. Duffy   (856) 829-1919 
  General Manager:   Hannah Librizzi   (856) 829-5500 
  Superintendent:   Drew White   (856) 829-1919 
Club Events
2023 Thursday, Jun 1  GAP Women’s Championship   
2022 Jun 22  GAP Open Championship Qualifier   
2021 Jul 6  GAP U.S. Senior Women’s Open Qualifier   
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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

FAMILY TEE LEVEL 1 TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  29.3 97  26.8  93 56.1 95 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443545374344343543471
 Yards 164194184178187802741592571677169100175200851977322717013963073
 HCP 1371517113159 61848122161014  
FAMILY TEE LEVEL 2 TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  30.3 102  30.1  108 60.4 105 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443545374344343543471
 Yards 18624822921823780312204333204722410025426011826012129323518653912
 HCP 1371517113159 61848122161014  
#1 TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.6 140  35.4  123 72.0 132 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443545374344343543471
 Yards 354384449361357202527331483344842417842742521845915147235531096557
 HCP 1371517113159 61848122161014  
#2 TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.9 138  34.5  116 70.4 127 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443545374344343543471
 Yards 338379384353342197510319480330240914241838918640515646634629176219
 HCP 1371517113159 61848122161014  
#3 TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.6 127  33.0  114 67.6 121 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443545374344343543471
 Yards 275373344322332144458311424298335311935834713239512544831525925575
 HCP 1371517113159 61848122161014  
#4 TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  32.5 117  31.5  110 64.0 114 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443545374344343543471
 Yards 2342662712723328437528138324983181072762919132012437630022034701
 HCP 1371517113159 61848122161014  
II TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton Loop
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.6 119  34.6  119 69.2 119 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443543354444435433570
 Yards 338379384350334188503400144302033837938435033418850340014430206040
 HCP    
I TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton Loop
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.2 122  35.2  122 70.4 122 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443543354444435433570
 Yards 354384403361357202527412151315135438440336135720252741215131516302
 HCP    
III TEESFront 9Back 9Riverton Loop
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.6 112  33.6  112 67.2 112 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444443543354444435433570
 Yards 277375350326311147462391128276727737535032631114746239112827675534
 HCP    
History
The first New Jersey club to join the Golf Association of Philadelphia was Riverton, which was founded in 1900 and became a GAP member two years later. The new century had barely dawned when several of the leading citizens of Riverton, a Quaker village on the Delaware established in 1851 as a summer retreat for Philadelphia businessmen and their families, decided that the community ought to have a golf club. After all, though its population was a mere 1,300, Riverton already had four churches (Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, Roman Catholic), a Quaker meeting house, a newspaper, grade school, post office, public library, fire company, concert hall, women’s club, bicycle track where professionals raced, athletic fields for baseball and football, and, dating back to 1865, the Riverton Yacht Club.
The country club’s first president was Edward H. Ogden, a Civil War veteran who, in 1894, had been elected the town’s first mayor. But the inspiriting force behind golf in Riverton was the club’s first secretary, James S. Coale (the Coale Memorial Tournament is named for him), a convivial bear of a man who loved all sports, who had first played golf at the age of 18, and who was also a member of the Moorestown Field Club. He built his own house directly across Thomas Avenue from the Riverton clubhouse, and though he broke 80 only a couple of times in his life, his passion for the game was such that he played often at the better courses on both sides of the river.
For less than $8,000 the new club bought 62 acres of gently sloping land with tall hardwoods and beautiful wildflowers. A graceful wood-shingle clubhouse was erected on the brow of a hill about an eight-minute walk from the Riverton train station. It afforded a pretty view of the distant Delaware.

Riverton’s original clubhouse, purpose-built in 1900.
Coale and John Reid, the professional at Atlantic City, laid out the nine-hole course within days of the incorporation of the club, which took place on March 21, 1900. Reid believed that the property, with its rolling ground, its streams, and its woods, had as many natural advantages as any in the Philadelphia area. The local newspaper reported that the course opening, scheduled for late April, had to be delayed till June 30 because the turf was stolen from one of the greens.
Riverton was a very short course, just 2,360 yards. It began with its longest and hardest hole, a 414-yarder that followed roughly the same route as the present 13th hole. The tee perched on the knob of a gravel pit, and the drive had to carry a brook. Beyond that water hazard came another stream, this one running on the diagonal. It emptied into another large gravel pit. The green was sited just beyond this excavation. If you managed to negotiate these obstacles successfully and were able to write down, say, a 6, you were off to a good start and could look forward to some 5s and 4s, perhaps even a 3, by the time you got back to the clubhouse. For though water popped up on several other holes, distance was not much of a problem. The yardages from the 2nd through the 9th: 166, 212, 205, 211, 385, 191, 257, 315.
Annual dues were $15 for men and women with full privileges, $10 for women who were only house members. The visitor’s fee was 75¢ a day, $5 a month. The clubhouse was open from 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Servants’ meals cost 50¢. Caddies were not to be paid more than 10¢ an hour. The "upper hall" (second floor) of the clubhouse was the ladies’ domain—reception room, locker room, bathroom, etc. Smoking was prohibited on this level.
House rules forbade alcoholic beverages, gratuities to employees, card games on Sundays, and card games for money at any time. Decades later, Riverton would find itself operating slot machines.
By the time the course opened for play that summer of 1900, the club could already boast more than a hundred members. From the outset its success seemed assured, and over the years to come the construction of a very good Donald Ross course and the emergence of such outstanding players as Dorothy and Nancy Porter, Ann Laughlin, and Robert "Beetle" Beirne served only to confirm the club’s early promise.

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