Newark Star-Ledger article on Cobb’s
June 18, 2013 update: Brendan Prunty of the Newark Star-Ledger penned an article on Cobb’s Creek GC last Sunday. Read it here: Cobb’s Creek Golf Club, four miles from Merion, preparing for rebirth
Category: Cobb’s News
Cobb’s Creek on The Golf Channel
June 11, 2013 update: If you missed the excellent piece on Cobb’s Creek GC by The Golf Channel Monday morning, you can view it here: Morning Drive story on Cobb’s Creek Note: that video probably won’t play on an iPad or iPhone (unless you use the Chrome web browser on those devices which can play […]
Updated Master Plan for Cobb’s Creek
June 9, 2013 update: It is time to release the latest versions of the Master Plan for the proposed Cobb’s Creek GC restoration project. The first diagram below is for the restoration of the golf course to essentially what it was in 1928 until the early 50s, and includes modification of the Karakung course to […]
Who was Hugh Wilson
June 5, 2013 update: Mike Cirba has written a fascinating article entitled “Who Was Hugh Wilson?”. You can read it here: Who Was Hugh Wilson?
Matt Ginella at Cobb’s Creek
May 30, 2013 update: Matt Ginella of The Golf Channel was out to Cobb’s Creek GC yesterday to meet with the Friends of Cobb’s Creek GC. Interview to be included on a piece concerning Philly public golf courses on Tuesday of US Open week (June 11). Below is a picture of Matt interviewing Chris Lange.
Project update by Joe Logan
Cinco de Mayo 2013 update: Well, the cat is nearly completely out of the bag now! Just this afternoon Joe Logan from MyPhillyGolf reports on the latest regarding a restoration of Cobb’s Creek: http://myphillygolf.com/detail.asp?id=13153
Golf Digest article on Cobb’s Creek
May 4, 2013 update: See the June issue of Golf Digest for a nice article on Cobb’s Creek by David Owen. The article is available online: http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2013-06/david-owen-muny-life
Olympic golf course progress
April 29, 2013 update: Gil Hanse discusses progress on the Olympic golf course with Joe Logan here: http://myphillygolf.com/detail.asp?id=13112
Joe Logan 2011 Hanse interview
April 8, 2013 update: Local golf course architect Gil Hanse loves Cobb’s Creek. Check out his 2011 interview by Joe Logan of MyPhillyGolf: http://www.myphillygolf.com/detail.asp?id=9117
Brad Klein profile of Gil Hanse
March 24, 2013 update: Brad Klein also did an extensive profile of Gil Hanse recently: http://golfweek.com/news/2013/mar/15/olympic-course-architect-hanse-wins-jobs-personal-/
Hanse at Rio
March 19, 2013 update: Brad Klein of GolfWeek reports that work begins today on the Olympic golf course in Rio de Janeiro: http://golfweek.com/news/2013/mar/19/work-finally-starts-rio-2016-course/ The architect is Gil Hanse of Malvern. Gil has done work at Cobb’s Creek over the years, in particular rebuilding the 4th green.
With a little help from a few friends
December 12, 2012 update: Do you remember the article back in April 2008 by Joe Logan, former golf writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, entitled “With a little help from a few friends”?
Cobb’s Creek Golf Association
November 30, 2012 update: The Cobb’s Creek Golf Association completed another successful year. Check them out at: www.the-crick.com Contact Paul Cornely for more info and how to join.
Roy Mason painting
November 24, 2012 update: A longtime supporter of Cobb’s Creek, Don D., checked in to tell us he has a 1917 painting from the course by Roy Mason. It must be seen in person to be fully appreciated. Below is a picture of it.
Get in line to play Cobb’s Creek!
June 7, 2012 update: Back in the 20s it was not unusual to have a multitude of people waiting to tee off at Cobb’s Creek. See below and get in line!
Army AAA Gun Site program aerial
June 1, 2012 update: The reason part of Cobb’s Creek GC changed dramatically was due to the installation of an Army AAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) Gun Site Program (a precursor to the Nike missile defense program) in 1953 on the corner of the course where the current City Line Avenue driving range sits. Below are two […]
KYW interview
May 31, 2012 update: Recently the Friends of Cobb’s Creek Golf Course met with Ed Abrams of KYW 1060 Newsradio and TeeItUpPhilly.com. From that interview was a segment on Cobb’s Creek as part of the station’s “Golf Report” (no longer available as a podcast, unfortunately).
President Taft lobbies for public course for Philadelphia
May 30, 2012 update: William Evans, the golf writer for the Public Ledger, grew tired of there being no public course in Philly, and recruited the help of President Taft. Below is the letter Taft wrote to Evans and published on February 23, 1913.
Ball stuck in tree
May 29, 2012 update: Below is an entertaining picture from the 4th hole at Cobb’s from the July 10, 1928 edition of the Evening Public Ledger.
Young Charlie Sifford at Cobb’s Creek
Memorial Day, 2012 update: Charlie Sifford was the first African-American on the PGA Tour. Did you know he honed his game at Cobb’s Creek? This from James W. Finegan’s wonderful book “A Centennial Tribute To Golf in Philadelphia”: “Charlie Sifford was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1922. He grew up caddying and learning to […]
Cobb’s Creek is busy
May 26, 2012 update: Do you know how busy Cobb’s Creek was in the 20s? Some years more than 80,000 golfers are reported to have played it. Read it below from the November 1927 edition of the Philadelphia Golfer magazine.
Cobb’s Creek designers
May 25, 2012 update: A variety of people likely helped design and build Cobb’s Creek. As support, this snippet from the Jan 1, 1916 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer below (part of bigger article on golf entitled “Drives and Putts” by “Joe Bunker”). Ab Smith, George Crump, and Hugh Wilson are three very notable names […]
1916 Daily Eagle article
May 19, 2012 update: Even a New York newspaper praised Cobb’s Creek soon after it opened! Read about it below (from the August 28, 1916 issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, a very prominent newspaper in its day).
Joe Dey Golfing Waterloo
May 14, 2012 update: Before Joe Dey went on to the USGA and later the first president of the PGA, he was a writer for the Evening Bulletin. In 1931 that Philly paper ran a series of articles called “Golfing Waterloos” where a local hole was profiled. On April 15, 1931 the original 6th hole […]
1915 Record pictures
May 11, 2012 update: On May 30, 1915 the Philadelphia Record published some pictures updating the progress at Cobb’s Creek. See them below (that is the 5th green under construction).
Public Ledger 12th hole
May 10, 2012 update: Below is a picture (Public Ledger, 1915) of the original 12th hole, a downhill par 3. Currently this is the par 3 6th green, played from a much different angle.
1928 Public Links routing
May 8, 2012 update: Below is the routing for the US Publinx tourney at Cobb’s Creek in 1928.
1915 Inquirer routing
May 7, 2012 update: Not long after the Public Ledger showed a routing (see May 5th update below) for Cobb’s Creek GC, the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 16, 1915 published a similar figure. The main difference being the par 3 14th hole appears to have the green moved and the hole stretched to 175 yards. […]
1915 Public Ledger routing
Cinco de Mayo, 2012 update: Below is the original routing at Cobb’s Creek GC from the April 11, 1915 edition of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Til De Palma interview
May 4, 2012 update: In the summer of 2008 the Friends of Cobb’s Creek Golf Course met with Til De Palma, probably the oldest living person familiar with the Cobb’s Creek Golf Course. He caddied there as a youngster in the 20s. You’ll hear him describe many aspects of his days there, including caddying for […]
1934 Cobb’s Creek tags
May 2, 2012 update: Late last year a friend sent pictures (here and here) of two Cobb’s Creek tags he owns (from 1934 issued by the Commissioners of Fairmount Park).