Combined families — ‘No poor players’ at Glens Falls Country Club

This is the latest in an occasional series of posts about the daughters of Samuel Pruyn and their families that lived in the three houses that now are the campus of The Hyde Collection art museum in Glens Falls.

Maurice Hoopes, with an 11-handicap, and Louis Hyde, with a 14-handicap. were among the “better” golfers at Glens Falls Country Club.

So they would’t have been ashamed of their scores.

The reason Hoopes, Hyde and their respective partners did not turn their score cards in for the 1920 opening day tournament “on the fair greens of the Glens Falls Country Club” must have been that they simply were not interested in competing for the gold-mounted belts that Addison B. Colvin donated as the tournament prize.

Hoopes was paired in the partners tournament with Frank Smalley and Pruyn with A.B. Hill.

“Each pair consists of one good player and a better player. There are no poor players in the Glens Falls Club,” The Post-Star reported.

Edward P. Marquette and William B. Lavarnway, with a total score of 207, won the tournament prize.

Club membership was up after the second year of operation of an indoor golf course over the winter months.

“The winter school has created a great many new enthusiasts and the (country) club membership is being rapidly increased,” The Post-Star reported.

Sources: The Post-Star — April 7, May 5, 8, 10, 1920.

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