Sleepy Hollow Country Club (Upper)
Sleepy Hollow Country Club (Upper) · New York, Briarcliff Manor
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Designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, with Seth Raynor as foreman, the legendary golf layout at Sleepy Hollow Country Club sits high above the Hudson River on a 338-acre estate that was purchased by William Rockefeller and Frank Vanderlip a year before the course opened for play in 1911.
In The Evangelist of Golf, George Bahto commented as follows: "Many of the original Macdonald and Raynor golf holes were named after characters and sites of the story "Ichabod"... The most famous of many legends surrounding Sleepy Hollow is that of the "Headless Horseman."
According to the story, the ghost of a Hessian soldier, who was beheaded during the Revolutionary War had possessed the body of Brom Bones, a local schoolteacher. Bones and another townsman named Ichabod Crane were vying for the hand of wealthy heiress Katrina Van Tassel.
One fateful night, Crane was confronted by the ghost and chased toward a nearby bridge. As Crane frantically tried to get away, the "Headless Horseman" suddenly stopped and threw his head at him. Crane was never seen alive again."
In the late 1920s, A.W. Tillinghast added seven new holes, which unfortunately resulted in something of a mismatched layout. After a couple of failed restoration attempts around the 1990s, Gil Hanse and George Bahto were called in to perform a major overhaul of the course in 2007.
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