It’s the kind of place you propose marriage to your girl.
Vanderbilt has a 340-acre estate tucked in the Hudson highlands, hard by the glorious, sun-drenched Tappan Zee beneath the noble brow of the mighty Palisades. It was no less a venerable triumvirate than John Jacob Astor, William Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt who came knocking on Macdonald’s door. In Sleepy Hollow’s case “rich patrons” is a grave understatement. When everyone saw how breathtaking Macdonald’s work at National was, every rich patron of the day said to himself, “I want one of those!” and suddenly Macdondald, along with his second-in-command Seth Raynor, was in great demand across the country. He talked the talk, and then he walked the walk. counterparts, and that he was going to show us all how it was done. One of his bolder, louder proclamations was that American golf courses lacked the interesting strategic nuances of their U.K. Macdonald was a blustering, brazen rakehell, but he frequently had a point. Sleepy Hollow Country Club is as quintessential to American golf as Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is to American literature.īorn in the formative years of golf in this country, Sleepy Hollow is one of the earliest golf course designs of the brash, colorful and brilliant Charles Blair Macdonald (his third, to be exact). It’s Gil Hanse, perhaps the most sought-after golf architect in the world right now, and he did it at no less historically important a club than venerable Sleepy Hollow. Happily, now someone – too humble to actually say it himself – may actually have done it. “I’m re-perfecting it,” he responded, smiling blithely while the entire room of golf writers looked askance. “Hey!, why’d you have to go back to so soon after you opened it?” I always used to laugh at that assessment: when some golf course architect would come back to a course he designed, redesigned, or renovated shortly after his original work was unveiled and tell everyone he was “re-perfecting it.” One architect in particular is infamous for that line. They re-perfected the golf course, and every golfer from Baja to Bangor is lining up to cheer its triumphant return to well-deserved glory.
Everything that you have heard, or will hear about the renovation of Sleepy Hollow Country Club is absolutely true. MaBy: Jay Flemma - SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY - It’s going to sweep every award this year, and it deserves it.
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