The Golf Association of Philadelphia

From PHILADELPHIA - Take the Northeast extension (Route 476) of the PA Turnpike to the Lehigh Valley exit. After the toll booth (keep right) and follow signs for Allentown. You are now on Route 22 East for about 1/4 mile. Take the 309 South exit. After one exit, Route 309 South will merge into Interstate 78 East. Go to the second exit, Cedar Crest Boulevard, and bear right off the ramp. Lehigh Valley Hospital will be on your right. Go through two traffic lights. After the second light go about 7/10 of a mile. Lehigh Country Club is on the left-hand side. Look for white brick pillars with LCC on them, just before the third light.

INTERSTATE 78 From Hellertown, Easton, New Jersey -Stay on 78 West to Cedar Crest Boulevard exit. Turn left onto Cedar Crest Boulevard. Lehigh Valley Hospital will be on your right. Go through three traffic lights. After the third light, go about 7/10 of a mile. Lehigh Country Club is on the left-hand side. Look for white brick pillars with LCC on them, just before the fourth light.

From HARRISBURG - Stay on 78 East to the Cedar Crest Boulevard Exit. Bear right off the ramp. Lehigh Valley Hospital will be on your right. Go through two traffic lights. After the second light, go about 7/10 of a mile. Lehigh Country Club is on the left-hand side. Look for white brick pillars with LCC on them, just before the third traffic light.

Course Yardage & Ratings

Handicap Conversion Charts: [Mens] [Womens]

BLACK TEES

Front 9

Back 9

Course

Rating

Slope

Rating

Slope

Rating

Slope

Bogey

Men

36.0

125

35.8

130

71.8

128

95.6

HOLE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN	TOTAL
Par	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	35	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	35	70
Yards	419	350	226	343	397	533	221	381	415	3285	427	501	410	184	369	369	177	416	443	3296	6581
HCP	5	13	9	17	1	11	15	3	7		6	12	8	14	16	4	18	2	10

Tee Set

Front 9

Back 9

Course

Rating

Slope

Rating

Slope

Rating

Slope

Bogey

Purple

Men

35.7

124

35.2

131

70.9

127

94.5

Men

35.4

123

34.8

129

70.2

126

93.6

HOLE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN	TOTAL
Par	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	35	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	35	70
Yards	404	334	209	324	381	526	211	373	405	3167	417	493	373	164	323	359	160	410	394	3093	6260
HCP	5	13	9	17	1	11	15	3	7		6	12	8	14	16	4	18	2	10

Tee Set

Front 9

Back 9

Course

Rating

Slope

Rating

Slope

Rating

Slope

Bogey

White

Men

34.6

121

33.8

127

68.3

124

91.3

Red

Men

33.4

116

33.0

113

66.4

114

87.6

History

At about the same time that Old York Road was launched, a club some 30 miles due north also came into existence. Lehigh Country Club filed its articles of incorporation in the latter part of 1910. Edward A. Soleliac was elected president. Other officers were George E. Holton, vice president; S. G. K. Stradley, secretary; and William W. Schantz, treasurer

A 60-acre parcel of land known as the Dodson Farm, near Rittersville, was acquired, and construction of a nine-hole course and a clubhouse got underway early in 1911. And if the course itself was, like so many "starter" courses, rudimentary, the same could scarcely be said of the clubhouse. On the occasion of the grand opening, April 18, 1912, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported: "... One hundred and twenty-four feet long and splendidly equipped, the clubhouse, which is of Italian villa architecture, is handsome and commodious and luxuriously furnished. The three dining rooms can be thrown into one banquet hall capable of seating 250 people."

The original clubhouse of Lehigh Country Club -- in the style of an Italian villa -- opened on April 18,1912.

By this time the club already had 350 resident members. Five years later, that number had climbed to 456, to say nothing of junior and non-resident members. But by 1925 membership had declined to 349. The decrease was due principally to the fact that Northampton Country Club now had an 18-hole course, and so did the new club at Bethlehem, Saucon Valley Country Club. A nine-hole course was not going to be acceptable to Lehigh Country Club much longer

Before the year was out, the club had acquired a new site. Located near Wieda�s mill, it consisted of two properties, the Kemmerer and Kline farms, totaling 205 acres. Running through this pretty rolling countryside was the Little Lehigh River. Purchase price was $55,000.

On May 17, 1926, the board approved a contract with Toomey and Flynn (William Flynn had recently designed Cherry Hills, outside Denver, and the Cascades Course at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia) to design and build a course at a cost of $109,210. Within seven months Toomey and Flynn completed their contract. However, all of 1927 and the first months of 1928 would be required to develop the course into playing condition, chiefly because heavy rains were to create a number of washouts�broad and deep gullies�to say nothing of the sinkhole that occurred when about a third of the 10th green dropped some six or seven feet. But on Memorial Day, 1928, with the club�s president, C. R. Harned, driving the first ball, the eighteen opened for play.

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