Sandy Run Country Club

 Sandy Run Country Club
200 East Valley Green Road
Oreland, PA  19075
 sroffice@comcast.net
  www.sandyruncc.com

Architect:  J. Franklin Meehan
Founded:  1923

Club Contacts

Golf ProfessionalPeter Lovenguth  (215) 233-0666
General ManagerJoe Wurtz  (215) 233-0666
SuperintendentAlex Lennertz  (215) 885-3063

Course Slope & Ratings

Sandy Run Country Club TeesFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeYardsRatingSlopePar
 V  Male  33.1 122  32.8 118  5314  65.9 120  72 
 IV/V  Male  33.2 121  33.4 123  5466  66.6 122  72 
 IV  Male  33.8 124  33.5 124  5638  67.3 124  72 
 III/IV  Male  33.9 124  34.2 125  5788  68.1 125  72 
 III  Male  34.4 127  34.8 127  6052  69.2 127  72 
 II/III  Male  34.7 129  35.1 129  6196  69.8 129  72 
 II  Male  35.1 130  35.5 130  6361  70.6 130  72 
 I/II  Male  35.8 131  35.5 131  6505  71.3 131  72 
 I  Male  36.2 133  36 132  6699  72.2 133  72 
 V  Female  36.5 131  35.3 130  5314  71.8 131  72 
 IV/V  Female  35.8 132  36.8 132  5466  72.6 132  72 
 IV  Female  37 133  36.6 135  5638  73.6 134  72 
 III/IV  Female  37 137  37.4 135  5788  74.4 136  72 
 III  Female  37.8 140  38.1 138  6052  75.9 139  72 

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Club History

Read the GAP Magazine Centennial Piece

J. Franklin Meehan was a born entrepreneur. He dearly loved to start something from scratch. In some instances, as at Ashbourne and Spring Ford, a new golf club that had acquired ground would call him in to lay out the course, a rewarding assignment that enabled him to put his personal imprint on the raw land. But it was not quite so satisfying as conceiving the idea for a club, finding the property, laying out the course, bringing together a number of kindred souls, and actually running the club during its formative years. This he did at North Hills. And then, more than 15 years later and virtually next door, he undertook to do it again.


"Arlington," Sandy Run’s original clubhouse, was the residence of Irene duPont Hendrickson Ralph. Demolished in 1954, the house was situated in an area where the club’s main practice green is located today.

The new club was chartered in June 1923, under the name of the Edge Hill Golf Club. Signing the certificate of incorporation were Leonard W. Brown, A. J. Murdoch, Harry F. Beck, F. E. Taylor, J. Russell Breitinger, Parke Weikert, A.R. McConnell, Norman V. Holmes, W.H. Calverley, and W. Nelson Mayhew. Edge Hill subsequently acquired a part of the former I. D. H. Ralph estate, 115 acres "situate near Camp Hill Station, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, at the southeast corner of Valley Green and Walnut Roads." The club paid exactly $1,000 per acre for this parcel. In order to consummate the deal, meet the mortgage payments, and make the necessary improvements (golf course and clubhouse), the members each subscribed to a $500 bond. They had a choice of the Cash Payment Plan (hand over the $500 in one lump sum); the Yearly Payment Plan (five installments of $100 each, the first payment to be made on March 15,1924, the four remaining installments due Oct. 15 in 1924-27); or the Monthly Payment Plan. A member had to have a pretty good head for figures in order to keep the Monthly Payment Plan straight: $35 on March 15, 1924; $15 on April 15, 1924; $10 on the 15th of May, June, July, August, and September.

Frank Meehan laid out a tight and varied 18-hole course—the topography was rolling but not hilly, lending itself nicely to holes with an attractive naturalness about them. Scottish-born John B. Carruthers was retained as the club’s first golf professional. In 1927, taking its name from the stream that runs through the property—and today lends considerable character to the par-5 8th—the club became Sandy Run Country Club. Frank Meehan remained in office as president until 1936, when he was succeeded by William A. Crooke.


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