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DuPont Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1920
Architect:DuPont - Gordons-DuPont, Cornish & Robinson-Nemours
General Information
Address: 1001 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE  19803
Phone:(302) 654-4435
Fax:(302) 772-1838
Website:www.dupontcountryclub.com
Email:dupontcountryclub@usa.dupont.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Mike Montafia   (302) 218-4669 
  General Manager:   Steve Matlaga   (302) 421-1702 
  Superintendent:   Tristan Engle   (302) 421-1792 
Location/Directions
From Philadelphia - Take I-95 South toward Wilmington and take Exit 8B, Route 202 North (Concord Pike / West Chester). Merge onto Route 202 North. After about 200 yards veer right towards 141. Go down the hill and turn left at the light. Go through one traffic light. At second light, turn left onto Children’s Drive. At the next light, turn right onto Rockland Road. The Clubhouse is approximately 1/2 mile on your right, across from the golf course on your left. Take a right to enter the front of the clubhouse.
FROM SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA - Follow Rt. 1 to Concord Pike (Rt. 202 South). You will pass the Concord Mall and Talleyville and eventually come to Fairfax Shopping Center, all on the left. Astra/Zeneca is on your right. Take a right at this intersection onto Rt. 141 (Murphy Road). Go straight through one traffic light servicing AstraZeneca. At the 2nd light continue straight onto Children’s Drive. (RT 141 goes to right. Don’t go there.)Go to the 3rd light and make a right onto Rockland Road. The Club is 1/2 mile on the right.
From the New Jersey Turnpike: Follow NJ Turnpike South to the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Cross the bridge and watch for signs to I-95 North to Exit 8, Route 202 North. Merge onto Route 202 North. After about 200 yards veer right towards 141. Go down the hill and turn left at the light. Go through one traffic light. At second light, turn left onto Children’s Drive. At the next light, turn right onto Rockland Road. The Clubhouse is approximately 1/2 mile on your right, across from the golf course on your left. Take a right to enter the front of the clubhouse.
Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

DuPont Tee SetFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
 Black Men  36.6 136  37.7  138 74.3 137  99.8 
 Blue Men  35.9 133  36.7  135 72.6 134  97.5 
 Gold Men  34.9 130  35.7  136 70.6 133  95.3 
 White Men  33.9 125  34.4  129 68.3 127  91.9 
 Green Men  32.0 114  33.0  114 65.0 114  86.2 
Montchanin Tee SetFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
 Back Men  30.8 103  30.1  101 60.9 102  79.9 
 Middle Men  30.6 103  29.9  99 60.5 101  79.3 
 Forward Men  30.4 102  29.6  100 60.0 101  78.8 
Nemours Tee SetFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
 Back Men  34.0 118  35.6  126 69.6 122  92.3 
 Middle Men  33.9 116  35.0  124 68.9 120  91.2 
 Forward Men  33.4 114  33.2  116 66.6 115  88.0 
History
The same enlightened attitude toward employees prompted the founding of the DuPont Country Club, in 1920. A memorandum from the then president of E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Irenee duPont, came right to the point: "The object of this Club is to advance the physical welfare of the employees of the company, to promote social intercourse among the members of the Club, and to maintain a clubhouse and grounds for their use."
Some seven or eight months prior to this memo, a questionnaire had been circulated among the company’s Wilmington employees inquiring about their choice of activities at the new club. Although golf eventually became the predominant sport, it ranked ninth in the preferences of the 1,793 employees who responded to the survey. Chosen ahead of golf were swimming, tennis, bowling, canoeing, trapshooting, baseball, pool, and basketball. Farther down the list were hammer throwing, croquet, shot putting, and jumping.
Provided at the outset were a baseball diamond, eight tennis courts, and a nine-hole golf course. These facilities occupied approximately 41 acres of land owned by the DuPont Company—rolling and partly wooded terrain embraced by a sweeping curve of the Brandywine Creek. As at Philadelphia Electric, turfgrass for the golf course was not initially a consideration. Here the tees were clay and the greens were sand. The clubhouse was a tiny, two-room frame structure, once used by the DuPont Gun Club, with little more than enough space for a foursome to change clothes. Still, 600 out of the company’s 3,000 local employees wasted no time in joining the club within a few weeks of its opening. And they could scarcely quarrel with the cost: a one-time entrance fee of $10 for men, $5 for ladies, plus annual dues in the same amounts.
In 1923 the club got its first 18-hole course, a completely new layout that made use of the ground containing the original nine plus some 70 additional acres. It also got its first golf professional. Tommy Fisher. One year later, in June, 1924, a handsome new clubhouse opened; it was made of the same Brandywine granite that went into the old powder mills and workers’ homes. With its great hall and massive fireplace, the clubhouse was imposing. It should be noted, however, that the tees were still clay and the greens still sand. Two years later the great conversion took place, so that by 1926 the members of the DuPont Country Club were playing golf on grass. As the future would prove, this was, in truth, simply a prelude to the development of one of the finest full-facilities country clubs—one that included four golf courses at three locations—ever founded and sponsored by a business entity.

DuPont clubhouse that opened in 1924.

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