Fifty Fifth Annual Women’s South Atlantic Golf Tournement: January 12 - 17, 1981. Oceanside Country Club: Yesterday and Today.
1981 · Ormond Beach, Florida
by Migliaccio, Isabel; Sally Book Chairman.
Ormond Beach, Florida: Oceanside Country Club, 1981. Quarto, paperbound (stiff, blue, illus. stapled wrappers), 47 pp.In our theme for this year’s Sally Book “Oceanside - Yesterday and Toda” -- we have attempted to show pictorially some of the changes which have taken place since the course was built in 1907. Before you turn the pages for pictures, here are just a few facts that I found interesting. The original course was 5887 yards in length and included some challenging holes, both short and long. For instance, No. 5 and No. 17 were 160 and 140 respectively; and No. 14 and No. 18 were 620 and 643 yards respectively! According to my research, the greens were originally sand greens with a marl base, but by 1911-12, when most of our pictures of Yesterday were taken, the greens were all Bermuda grass. 1950 marked the first year that Alice Bauer, a name familiar to most of us, first played in the Sally. By 1951, when Mr. Ellinor purchased the Club, it was 6133 yard course, and today it measures approximately the same from the blue tees. That same years, there were 200 members in the then Ellinor Village Golf Club, and the Club House was still on the beach... (Inventory #: 60877bd)