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During the 1960’s Geoffrey Cornish, then
president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, was
enlisted by a number of the Manchester area innkeepers and motel owners
who found themselves faced with an increased demand for golf by their
guests to design a course in Manchester. At this time the 165-acre
former Senecal Farm property came on the market and was deemed suitable
for a first-class golf course.
Three men, Algie Pulley and Buddy Loving, both
involved in golf course design, and E. H. Coffee, a contractor,
agreed to come to Vermont and began construction on August 16, 1968.
The front nine was opened for play on May 29, 1970
with the inaugural first shot played by Robert Brewster, one of the
original members of the Board of Governors, and a cookout was held for
the 214 members. The back nine was opened for play a month later on July
3, 1970.
In 2000 the Board called for a vote of the
membership and a majority approved back nine restoration. Off-course
work began in mid-summer 2001, with the back nine closing and
reconstruction beginning immediately after Labor Day. Years
earlier, the Club had purchased an adjoining 34-acre parcel that now
allowed the lengthening and relocation of certain holes. Greens and tees
were rebuilt, fairways were torn up, new double-row irrigation was
installed and a minimum of four inches of topsoil was spread throughout
all back nine holes. A newly constructed continuous unpaved cart path
leads from the 10th tee to the 18th green. |
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