Member Clubs

Sunnybrook Golf Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1913
Architect:William Gordon
2013 Club Events
Fri-Sun, May 17-19  Silver Putter 
Fri-Sun, May 31-2  Silver Putter Champions Division 
Wed, Jul 10  Member Play Day - 6 
General Information
Address: 398 Stenton Avenue
Plymouth Meeting, PA  19462
Phone:(610) 828-9617
Fax:(610) 828-1183
Website:www.sunnybrook.org
Email:proshop@sunnybrook.org
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Eric Schultz   (610) 828-9631 
  General Manager:   Ron G. Ruffner, Jr., CCM   (610) 828-9617 
  Superintendent:   Scott Kroll   (610) 828-9631 
Location/Directions
From Pennsylvania Turnpike - Exit at Norristown Interchange. Right on Germantown Pike (Route 422) for approximately 3 miles to Joshua Road. Turn left approximately one mile to Stenton Avenue (second light). Turn left to Sunnybrook Golf Club Driveway 30 yards beyond Joshua Road.
From Philadelphia - Take 76 West (Schuylkill Expressway) to 476 North to Exit 19 (Germantown Pike East). Turn right onto Germantown Pike and continue to Joshua Road (2nd light) and turn left onto Joshua Road to 2nd light (Stenton Avenue). Turn left and Sunnybrook is 30 yards on left.
Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
  Men  37.1 149  37.7  143 74.8 146  101.9 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 359464511392164359538224394340555940436642143916453620340935016906
 HCP 14281018126164 7513131591711  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
  Men  35.9 144  36.7  138 72.6 141  98.8 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 342404499380151326522185374318353739334539141814851619038433226505
 HCP 14281018126164 7513131591711  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
  Men  35.1 139  35.3  137 70.4 138  96.0 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 333395491353126307489173344301151136330637135913750218334930816092
 HCP 14281018126164 7513131591711  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
  Men  34.3 135  34.4  132 68.7 134  93.5 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 315330487352100301483168299283547929827234741113248117627628725707
 HCP 14281018126164 7513131591711  
GREEN TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
  Men  32.9 129  33.0  128 65.9 129  89.8 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444535343773
 Yards 27831840928290269420140292249843527227031435310542614027025855083
 HCP 14281018126164 7513131591711  
JUNIOR TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
  Men  30.2 115  30.6  100 60.8 108  80.8 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 445434534365444435343672
 Yards 1882352491989918727913319317612311921812202179926313321717533514
 HCP 14281018126164 7513131591711  
History
By its own admission, "Sunnybrook was organized by six ’crusaders’ who defected from the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1913." All were prominent on the Philadelphia business and social scenes—William Findlay Brown, Charles T. Cowperthwait, James A. Janney, Jr., Samuel Y. Heebner, George C. Thomas, and Joseph S. Clark. What’s more, the last three were quite well known in golfing circles. Samuel Heebner had been president of the Golf Association of Philadelphia from 1899 to 1905. George Thomas had designed and built Whitemarsh Valley on his estate, Bloomfield Farm. And Joseph S. Clark was one of the three members of the Organizing Committee of Pine Valley Golf club.
There were two main considerations underlying the decision to found Sunnybrook. First, Philadelphia Cricket Club did not own the land on which its course was built at St. Martins. It belonged to the Houston estate, and since this ground had by now become extremely valuable for residential development, there was reasonable doubt as to the future of golf in this section of Chestnut Hill.
Second—and perhaps at least as compelling—what the "crusaders" were crusading for was a simple place where kindred spirits might get together for a game of golf on a good course. The club would be small—no worry about getting off the first tee and no crowding once you started the round. The problems associated with a large and diverse membership, the trappings of country club life— these would have no place here. Sunnybrook would be, in the purest sense, a golf club.
In July, 1913, the founders purchased a farm lying between Mill Road and Haws Lane, east of Church Road, in Flourtown. On March 7, 1914, the Sunnybrook Golf Club was chartered. The course, designed by Donald Ross, opened for play more than a year later, on Decoration Day (as it was always referred to then). May 30,1915. An old farmhouse just north of the 13th green served as the original clubhouse.
On Decoration Day, 1928, a new and larger clubhouse opened. And for nearly 30 more years golf was enjoyed here in Flourtown. The course possessed some outstanding holes. Both the 5th and 6th, long par 4s, required well-hit shots to carry the stream for which the club was named. The 13th, with the same creek meandering across the fairway, then edging up to the green, where willow trees grew, was lovely and testing. And the par-3 16th was memorable for its treacherous double-tiered green.
In 1954 a combination of circumstances, including the impending construction of the new Route 309, which would have claimed the 5th green and the land immediately surrounding it, prompted the club to seek a new location. Happily, a beautiful, rolling 135-acre site was found not far away, the old William Disston farm, in Plymouth Meeting.

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