2013 Crumps Dream The Making of Pine Valley Golf Club - 100th Anniversary Members Edition

This 2013 Crumps Dream:  The Making of Pine Valley Golf Club was available to only the members of the exclusive club. 

Aside from the standard version, the club also issued this version of the book for members only. This book comes with a grey slipcase with an image of a pine tree on it. You can sometimes tell a Pine Valley member if they are wearing a shirt with the image of a pine tree only on it, without the words “Pine Valley” underneath. The members-only book follows the same protocol and a silver pine tree with PVGC and 1913 on the bottom .

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the club also issued a version of the book for members only. This book comes with a grey slipcase with an image of a pine tree on it. You can sometimes tell a Pine Valley member if they are wearing a shirt with the image of a pine tree only on it, without the words “Pine Valley” underneath. The members-only book follows the same protocol and a silver pine tree with PVGC and 1913 on the bottom .

The book contains a detailed analysis of the course’s design. It is clear that Crump was the driving force behind the course and its design, although H.S. Colt was intimately involved in the routing. Colt camped on the grounds in a tent for a week during a U.S. visit and produced a routing map (which hangs in the clubhouse, and is pictured in the book). Crump took most of the Colt’s design, although he had strong views on what should be changed, and he prevailed. The book states that Pine Valley’s first hole is patterned after Hoylake’s. After Crump’s death Charles Alison was brought in to complete the routing and the course and many other learned architects of the day were also consulted including A.W. Tillinghast, Hugh Wilson and William Flynn. The book contains copies of Colt’s hand-drawn hole-by-hole color illustrations.

As Mutch illuminates Crump’s design philosophy, “In almost all instances where a player could receive a lucky bounce or use an unintended slope to an advantage, the offending flaw was eliminated. Great care was taken to assure that a range of demands were placed on the golfer, necessitating thought, strategy, power, finesse and endurance…there was no place for luck.”