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A 1852 map of the location of the club.  Rocky Meadow Brook, Westfield St. and Summer St. are good spots to get your bearings.  The 17th pond is visible, as is the ridge that the clubhouse sits on and the mound that the 11th green sits on.

Articles that are relevant to DCPC
Dedham Times -positive results from
 a  2006 conservation commission
 meeting.
 

Golfweek's Mention of DCPC

 

MassGolfer -In this article you see not only Seth Raynor mentioned, but DCPC old pro Willie Ogg as well.  The article incorrectly identifies the 1902 DCPC layout as a Ross, we later found out that Ross did the 1915 layout.  Given the timing of Ogg at the club shortly after Ross, and his short tenure, we no longer believe that Ogg made any major adjustments to the design of the course.  We still don't know who did the original 1902 layout, but Alex Findlay is my guess.  Findlay's materials reference work at Dedham, and he was playing alot of golf in the Boston area at the time.

 

Michael and Raynor in Superintendent magazine.
 
Michael is asked to speak at the New England Regional Turf Conference on Naturalized Area management.  Program here.
 
Michael interviewed for Golfdom magazine on fertilizer use and delivery options.
 
Michael reports from his Delegates trip to England here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DCPC Historical Articles

 Boston Globe 1902 - Initial gathering of the Norfolk Country Club which formed the first club on the the inner 8.  Norfolk would merge with Dedham Polo Club in 1910 to form DCPC.

 

Boston Globe 1915 - The re-opening of the newly designed 9 holes.

 

Boston Globe 1918 - The clubhouse fire.

 

1918 American Golfer on page 464 talks about the new clubhouses in the area.

 

1922 Boston Globe article about the re-opening of the clubhouse.

 

History Scraps - old clippings we have found in our research.

 

 DCPC History and Architecture Primer - A document we created as a result of this research.

 

 DCPC 1929 Scorecard and 70's Scorecard backpage - The 1929 course is missing the current third hole and the current 18th was split into two holes.  Another note is that the ninth (the eighth back then) is playing really short because the land behind the current stream had not been purchased.  I included the back of the 70's card to show some of the peculiar local rules of the time.

 

Pictures of the plane crash that happened at DCPC in the early 80's on the 11th hole.

 

Crane Bowl History- DCPC's Member Guest.  This is an oral history compiled from the memories of the members of the Archives Committee.
 
Crane Wins at 83- USGA Journal article.
 
Joshua Crane's response letter to the editor.

 

 USGA 1956 Article by Billy Harding on flood recovery efforts at DCPC after the record flood of 1955.


Here is a new series of graphics we will be uploading to the site over the next few months.  This series consists of historical plans of the golf course.  The first one is the 1915 Ross designed 9 holer.  We did some drawing and coloring to help the holes stand out...it looks like a fine golf course.