William Flynn Is the Golf Architect Who Was Most Responsible for the Design, Updates and Construction of Our Eagles Mere Country Club Course

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William Flynn Is the Golf Architect Who Was Most Responsible for the Design, Updates and Construction of Our Eagles Mere Country Club Course

Whom, pray tell, is William Flynn? William Flynn is the golf architect who was most responsible for the design, updates and construction of our Eagles Mere Country Club Course. Other Notable Flynn Courses Atlantic City Country Club Born in 1890, William Flynn left his native Massachusetts in his late teens to find his true Cascades Golf Club calling in Philadelphia. Wayne Morrison in his Cherry Hills Country Club book, Nature Faker, writes, “Flynn came to The Country Club (Brookline) Philadelphia as a hired contractor but through a The Country Club (Pepper Pike) remarkable work ethic evolved into an extraordinary agronomist, golf course Country Club of Harrisburg superintendent and finally golf course architect.” Country Club of Virginia While Flynn’s course architecture business had Glen View Club him traveling to many areas of the U.S., he maintained his home in Philadelphia until he died Huntington Valley CC in 1945. Indian Creek Country Club The Kittansett Club “ … William Flynn’s contribution was Lancaster Country Club enormous, not so much in the number of Lehigh Country Club his designs, but in the quality of them. Manufacturers Golf & CC Unlike the misty origins of golf, William Pepper Pike Club Flynn emerges clearly and takes his Philadelphia Country Club honored place among those wonderful Rolling Green Golf Club men who have left us legacies of beauty and pleasure.” Seaview Country Club Legendary sportscaster Jack Whittaker Shinnecock Hills Golf Club Springdale Golf Club.

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