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Huntingdon Valley Country Club
2295 Country Club Drive
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
idalzell@hvccpa.org
www.hvccpa.org

Architect: William S. Flynn
Founded: 1897

Club Contacts

Golf Professional	Ian R Dalzell	(215) 659-1584
General Manager	Bill Troyanoski	(215) 657-1610 x138
Superintendent	Timothy Kelly	(215) 657-1610

Course Slope & Ratings

Toomey/Flynn Tees		Front 9		Back 9		Course
Toomey/Flynn Tees		Rating	Slope	Rating	Slope	Yards	Rating	Slope	Par
Gold	Male	31.9	125	32.4	130	4904	64.3	128	70
White/Gold	Male	32.6	127	33.2	131	5253	65.8	129	70
White	Male	33.6	131	34	136	5718	67.6	134	70
Black/White	Male	34.4	133	34.7	138	6004	69.1	136	70
Black	Male	35.2	136	35.5	139	6316	70.7	138	70
Red/Black	Male	35.7	138	35.9	140	6499	71.6	139	70
Red	Male	36.7	142	36.2	140	6747	72.9	141	70
Green	Male	37.3	145	37.5	152	7198	74.8	149	70
Gold	Female	34.8	129	34	125	4904	68.8	127	73
White/Gold	Female	35	127	36	131	5253	71	129	73
White	Female	36.8	130	37.4	138	5718	74.2	134	73
Black	Female	38	142	38.7	145	6316	76.7	144	73
Flynn/Centennial Tees		Front 9		Back 9		Course
Flynn/Centennial Tees		Rating	Slope	Rating	Slope	Yards	Rating	Slope	Par
Gold	Male	32.4	130	32	122	4882	64.4	126	70
White	Male	34	136	32.9	123	5448	66.9	130	70
Black	Male	35.5	139	34.7	136	6135	70.2	138	70
Red/Black	Male	36.2	140	35.9	140	6499	72.1	140	70
Red	Male	36.7	142	36.9	144	6747	73.6	143	70
Green	Male	37.5	152	38.1	149	7219	75.6	151	70
Gold	Female	34.8	129	34.6	123	4882	69.4	126	72
White	Female	37.4	138	35.5	127	5448	72.9	133	72
Black	Female	37.7	136	38.7	145	6135	76.4	141	72
Centennial/Toomey Tees		Front 9		Back 9		Course
Centennial/Toomey Tees		Rating	Slope	Rating	Slope	Yards	Rating	Slope	Par
Gold	Male	32	122	31.9	125	4844	63.9	124	70
White	Male	32.9	123	33.6	131	5432	66.5	127	70
Black	Male	34.7	136	35.2	136	6119	69.9	136	70
Red/Black	Male	36.2	140	35.7	138	6504	71.9	139	70
Red	Male	36.2	140	36.9	144	6728	73.1	142	70
Green	Male	38.1	149	37.3	145	7231	75.4	147	70
Gold	Female	34.6	123	34	125	4844	68.6	124	71
White	Female	35.5	127	36.8	130	5432	72.3	129	71
Black	Female	37.7	136	38	142	6119	75.7	139	71

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Club History

Golf got its start in the Huntingdon Valley area in a rather intriguing fashion. The late Percy C. Madeira, chairman of Huntingdon Valley Country Club’s first green committee, recalled the stirrings of the game in a sketch published some 80 years ago in the Valleyman, the club’s house organ:

There was developed at that time a captive golf ball which some may remember. It consisted of a golf ball attached to a cord, the latter being wound up in a small iron box or case about six inches in diameter, which was pegged to the ground, and then the golf ball was hit and a dial at the top of the box, revolving as the cord went out, indicated the distance that the ball traveled. I secured one, and the enthusiasts who gathered at my country home, ’Brookwood,’ in those days, used to drive the golf ball in this fashion until it was finally thought that we might evolve a golf course of our own. The alleged golf course was then started on my place, which ran across what is now Meeting House Road (then unopened) to Mr. Caleb F. Fox’s place, thence over his lawn and back again, making nine crude holes. Of course it was very rough, and I cannot say it was much played over. At any rate, the seed had been sown, and the game of golf was started.

The Huntingdon Valley Country Club was founded in 1897 and a nine-hole course laid out at Rydal by a Scottish professional named John Reid. Mr. Madeira remembers the first hole: ". . . . The green was located between the Valley Road and the railroad ... a small leveled-off space, about 20 feet in diameter, and the player was supposed to carry the creek on his second shot, and probably on the third clear the row of trees along the Valley Road and land on this little dinner plate of a green. This made a hole of such difficulty that it was impractical. . . ."

Huntingdon Valley’s second clubhouse, the Noble Mansion, 1901.

Within two years the club, whose membership had grown rapidly and whose board of governors was liberally sprinkled with well-known Philadelphia names (Lippincott, Elkins, Sinkler, Stoddart, Wanamaker, Widener, Madeira), acquired adjacent property. The Noble Mansion, on Old York Road, became the clubhouse (ample accommodations for servants, plus excellent stabling arrangements), and an additional nine holes were laid out. The result was one of the longest (6,326 yards, par 77) and most challenging 18-hole courses in the country, all of it over land that ranged from rolling to hilly. The outbound half—one suspects that this must have been the new nine—measured 3,464 yards against a par of 40. Holes 2, 3, and 4 (414 yards, 394,396) were all rated 4 1/2s. And the next three holes consisted of a par 5 (485 yards), a 5 1/2 (528 yards), and another 5 (490 yards). No wonder the club was soon to develop a number of the ablest players in the district, all of whom felt that, in contrast to their home courses, other courses were a snap.

Huntingdon Valley joined the Golf Association of Philadelphia and the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia in 1898, the fifth club to be elected to membership in both.

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