He recalls a difficult course with small greens. "It was hilly. The fairways were really like pastures, not groomed like they are today," he states. "You got tough lies."
On the list of club's head golf pros were Roy Brondson and Al Grauer. Brondson later worked at Wianno, while Grauer's son, Don, would get to be the pro at Hyannisport Driver.
Holes received names, some rather obvious - like "The First" for No. 1 - others not really much. The opening Ping G20 fairway wood hole of 325 yards demanded a blind shot towards the green, as the 320-yard second was labeled "Waterloo," perhaps due to tee shot that required a carry over the advantage of Dam Pond.
The 325-yard third, named "Commandment," ran parallel to Dam Pond and featured views of Cotuit Bay. The 347-yard fourth was "Yellow Leg Cove," along with the 315-yard seventh, set near the bay, was "Easy Street."
"Wigwam Hill" was handed to the 165-yard par-3 fifth. Probably the most distinctive hole on the course, saving money cannot be observed from your tee. "It was a totally blind uphill shot," Hansen says.
The 332-yard sixth, called "The Turn," heralded the march back toward the clubhouse, while the 500-yard eighth was "Bunker Hill" on an unknown reason, as well as the 362-yard ninth was appropriately labeled "Home."
"You often see water on the first, second, third and fourth holes," says Joel Davis, who now lives in Brooksfield, Maine. "The the game was quite rough. But people liked it. It was heavily used."
Players completing their rounds were often greeted by spectators lounging for the porch from the clubhouse that Ping K15 Irons has been located behind the ninth green. There are 20 bedrooms, five bathrooms, a glass-walled dining area along with a wood-burning fireplace inside the inn that sat on the water's edge, overlooking Osterville Bay.
Despite its amenities, the club sank into bankruptcy after Parsons' death in 1925, closing down until Davis purchased the place and the game in 1930. Davis, president of Aluminum Limited of Montreal, was really a businessman when compared to a golfer, and his interest was mainly within the worth of the land. "He played a bit golf, but not much," Holbrook Davis says.
Davis leveled the place in 1930 - to the amount of $400 - but reopened the the game in 1932. However, memberships discount golf clubs in private clubs thinned throughout the Depression. By The second world war, his only cause of operating the club was to bring about the war effort. In the final two years of existence, Davis donated the club's profits for the American Field Service, a company providing ambulance services in North Africa. His son, Holbrook, was driving an AFS ambulance there at the time. "But the earnings were pretty thin," Holbrook recalls.
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