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Hershey’s Mill Golf Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1979
Architect:Dave & William Gordon
General Information
Address: 401 Chandler Drive
West Chester, PA  19380
Phone:(610) 431-1600
Fax:(610) 429-0929
Website:www.hersheysmillgolfclub.com
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Matthew Harvey   (610) 692-6592 
  General Manager:   Teresa Redcay   (610) 431-1600 x11 
  Superintendent:   Steve Friedell   (610) 692-2649 
Location/Directions
From Pennsylvania Turnpike-Valley Forge Exit - Route 202 South to Boot Road Exit and turn left onto Boot Road. At first intersection (Greenhill Road) turn left. Follow 1.4 miles to second entrance to club on right (main gate).*Please allow an extra 10 miniutes of travel time to get through the main gate.
From Delaware - Route 1 North to Route 202 North or I-95 to 202 North to Boot Road. Turn right on Boot Road and at first intersection turn left (Greenhill Road). Go 1.4 miles to second entrance to club on right (main gate).
From Main Line - Route 30 West to Route 352 South. Follow to Greenhill Road (HMGC sign at intersection). Turn right onto Greenhill Road and follow to 1st entrance on left (main gate).
Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

Tee SetFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlopeBogey
 Black Men  36.1 131  35.4  126 71.5 129  95.4 
 Blue Men  35.3 129  34.7  125 70.0 127  93.6 
 Hybrid Men  34.7 125  33.9  126 68.6 126  91.9 
 Tan Men  34.0 121  33.0  115 67.0 117  88.7 
 Tan/Green Men  32.9 113  32.4  114 65.3 114  86.4 
 Green Men  32.4 110  31.9  107 64.3 109  84.5 
History
It was on December 7, 1979, that Hershey’s Mill Golf Club was founded. Its course is the centerpiece of Hersey’s Mill Villages, a community of homes in West Chester designed principally for people 50 years of age and over. The initial board of directors included David Acton, David F. Crockett, Sr., David F. Crockett, Jr., William G. Crockett, John F. Trickett, Joseph W. Conlon, Herbert F. Hall, and John B. Lewis. David Acton served as the first president of the new club. John Lewis succeeded him.

A 1981 photo at Hershey’s Mill showing 18th green in foreground, clubhouse in background.
Doylestown’s Dave Gordon had been chosen to design the course, construction of which began in late 1978. Subsequently, however, William E. Maddox, of Batavia, Illinois, was brought in to lay out and build the eighteen. The son of golf course architect and builder Charles E. Maddox, Bill Maddox, after working for a number of years with his father, fashioned several courses on his own in the 1970s, mainly on the west coast of Florida. Maddox incorporated four holes from the original Gordon plan into his design.
Nine holes opened for play on June 15, 1980 (there were 18 tees). A tournament marked the occasion. Fifty-one golfers teed off following a shotgun blast. They finished amidst thunderclaps in a violent storm. Since the clubhouse was not yet completed, the after-golf celebration took place in Winfield Hall, the community center.
Six months later, in December, 1980, the clubhouse opened its doors. It contained a dining room with a seating capacity of 130, locker rooms for men and women, six rooms for overnight guests, and a golf shop. Ben Steele was the club’s first professional. The clubhouse was formally dedicated on January 31, 1981.
By the end of May, 1981, all eighteen holes were in play. A round then started at what is now the 10th tee; the nines were switched in July, 1982.
Since the opening of the full eighteen, several changes have been made in the course, most notably the lengthening of the 2nd hole to a par 5. Both the 6th and the 8th greens have been rebuilt.
Routed over attractively rolling terrain and dotted with a number of proud old hardwoods and evergreens, Hersey’s Mill measures 6,292 yards from the regular markers (6,702 from the back, 5,634 from the front) and plays to a par of 72. A look at the card discloses no par 5 as long as 500 yards and only two par 4s—the 433-yard 6th and the grand 417-yard 18th, over water, then uphill to a dangerously sloping green—requiring some show of strength. But the card can be misleading. A combination of narrow fairways, doglegs, boundaries, and elevation changes— plus greens that generally call for a very assured touch— produces a course rating, from the regular markers, of 70.7 and a Slope of 126. The community may well have been developed with senior citizens in mind, but the golf course makes little concession to the age of the players.

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