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Jim_Kennedy:
Mark,
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too. If Stanford calls tell him to duck next time.

Robert Emmons:
add:

Harrison- Williams Estate course...9 holes, NLE, Bayville, New York

Jim_Kennedy:
Robert,
Will do.

A few course names were mentioned in an article about Emmet’s St. Lawrence GC in Canton NY. A couple possible new ones for the list are:
-TheBriarcliff Lodge layout, where Sarazen served as professional;
-The Briarcliff Country Club course; Pelham, where the P. G. A. final was fought out between Sarazen and Hagen in1923
-Hillcrest
-Rye
I don’t know if the two Briarcliff’s are one in the same , or some course already mentioned, but Hillcrest and Rye could be new.

One other one was Grassy Sprain in Yonkers. A 1966 article about the course says:

Back in 1941 the city took over for unpaid taxes, the old Grassy Sprain Golf Club. This was located on both sides of Central Park Avenue between Tuckahoe Road and Palmer Road and players used a tunnel beneath Central Avenue to reach the second nine holes which were on the west side of Central Avenue. Today the golf course property on the east side of Central is occupied by a shopping center, the Sprain Brook Library, Andrus Memorial Park, and apartment houses. On the west side are the Bryn Mawr Ridge apartment development, another smaller apartment house, the Charles L. Curran Houses, a senior citizens public housing project now nearing completion, School Thirty one on Ravenswood Road, and a shopping center along the intersection of Tuckahoe Road and Central Avenue.

George Bahto once mentioned this course as one that he had driven by many times but didn’t know who built it. Now that this 1920 article has turned up I think the ‘case’ is solved:

Jim_Kennedy:
The Hillcrest golf course was located in Queens, NY,at the intersection of Union and Utopia Turnpikes.

St. John's University occupies the site today.  

Jim_Kennedy:
Here's a section of the Hillcrest course from 1954. This must have been the last photo of it as St. John's started building on the site in the mid '50s.

The complete view is at www.historicaerials.com

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