Architect
Devereux Emmet
Devereux Emmet (1861-1934) was a well-connected New York sportsman who took up golf course design in the 1890s and became one of the busiest architects of the pre-Golden Age era, credited with more than 100 courses. He laid out the original course at Garden City Golf Club on Long Island and designed Congressional Country Club in Maryland, along with numerous private clubs across the New York metropolitan area. Emmet later worked in partnership with Alfred Tull, and his courses were noted for natural routing that made efficient use of rolling terrain without heavy earthmoving. Though less publicized than contemporaries like Macdonald or Tillinghast, Emmet's prolific output helped establish golf as a mainstream American pursuit in the early twentieth century.
- Courses on BogeyMap
- 7
- States
- 3
- Avg LooperScore
- 79.9
- Highest rated
- The Otesaga's Leatherstocking Golf Course
Biography
Devereux Emmet (1861-1934) was a well-connected New York sportsman who took up golf course design in the 1890s and became one of the busiest architects of the pre-Golden Age era, credited with more than 100 courses. He laid out the original course at Garden City Golf Club on Long Island and designed Congressional Country Club in Maryland, along with numerous private clubs across the New York metropolitan area. Emmet later worked in partnership with Alfred Tull, and his courses were noted for natural routing that made efficient use of rolling terrain without heavy earthmoving. Though less publicized than contemporaries like Macdonald or Tillinghast, Emmet's prolific output helped establish golf as a mainstream American pursuit in the early twentieth century.
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