History of Pine Valley Golf Club

History of Pine Valley Golf Club

Pine Valley was founded in 1913 by a group of amateur golfers from Philadelphia. They purchased 184 acres of rolling, sandy ground deep Taylormade R9 MAX Type E Driver in the pinelands of southern New Jersey, and gave George Arthur Crump, who knew the area from hunting expeditions, the opportunity to design the course. This was Crump's first and only golf course design, and he set Callaway FT-I Driver himself some idiosyncratic principles: no hole should be laid out parallel to the next; no more than two consecutive holes should play in the same TaylorMade R7 CGB MAX Driver direction; and players should not be able to see any hole other than the one they were playing. He also felt that a round of golf on his course should require a player to use every club in the bag.The site was challenging and the project became something of an obsession for Crump, who sold his hotel in Philadelphia Callaway ERC Hyper Driver and ploughed his money into the course. Marshlands had to be drained and 22,000 tree stumps had to be pulled out with special steam-winches and horse-drawn cables. This was all done at a time when many golf courses were still built with minimal earth moving, and the course was called Crump's Folly by some. The first taylormade fairway eleven holes opened unofficially in 1914, but when Crump died in 1918 four holes were incomplete.