Prairie Dunes Country Club Golf Course Gold Hole Layout Plate Hutchinson KS Vtg

Description

Up for a auction/sale is a vintage Prairie Dunes Country Club 11 1/4" plate, which features an artists rendition (signed, but not legible) of the golf course from an aerial view, a chart showing the pars for each hole, and the St Andrews symbol denoting royal and ancient golf clubs.
I can't date this specifically, but was told the plate was made available only to club members in the later 1950s, around the time when the second set of 9 holes were opened in 1957.
Rather you're a member at this exclusive golf course, a previous competitor, or someone who appreciates long established and famous golf courses, this is an awesome plate with great course details which has been professionally framed and is ready to hang.
The plate is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or damage of any sort, and the colors are bright and bold. The frame has a few minor bumps and dings, but is also nearly perfect and matted with great distinction. The rough overall measurement of the frame are 16 1/4" square and 2 1/4" deep.
I have described this plate as best I can, but to augment my description I have provided several high-resolution images of the framed plate from varying angles to allow for a detailed review of quality, condition, and desirability. However, please forgive the glass under glass reflection.
This will be packaged with care to best ensure this rarely offered vintage plate arrives as pictured and described.
If you have any questions, additions, corrections, or concerns, feel free to message me.
A little about Prairie Dunes Country Club from ArtistsGolf.com:
Prairie Dunes: A lost treasure because of its location in the Midwest in Hutchinson, Kansas, this little jewel of a course calls for skill and craftiness rather than brute force. At 6,593 yards par-70 it is known as the St. Andrews of the prairies. The original nine holes were designed by the knowing Perry Maxwell and the concluding nine by his son Press Maxwell.
Opened in 1937 as a playground for the Emerson Carey family, it has been called the country's most unusual great course and even compared to Augusta National in classic quality. When the wind is up and in Kansas that's a lot, the course can be especially difficult. The Bermuda fairways are tight with lots of doglegs. The roughs are filled with brambles, plum thickets and deep grass, but dotted with colorful wildflowers, Milkweed, Big Bluestem along with the occasional cottonwood tree. Yucca plants with long stiff leaves and woody stems grow in some of the 72 bunkers and other select places as a unique obstacle.
The greens sometimes seem to rise from nowhere among the high sweeping dunes. Small and undulating, the severely humpbacked greens call for sensitivity and a steady hand. Nicklaus won the 1958 Trans-Mississippi Amateur Championship without a round under 72.
Obviously there are some testy holes. The 424-yard, Par-4 Eighth is one of the classic holes in America. Regarded by Sports Illustrated in 1966 as one of the greatest 18 in the world, it is a slowly rising; long rolling dogleg right with some impediments. Four dunes rise in the fairway where the drives normally land causing tact from the tee and composure on the approach. The oddly contoured green is protected on the right by four bunkers and on the left by one.
Yucca plants dot the bunkers and there is a slow drop-off on the green. The Par-3 Tenth has been included among the 100 best holes in the world. In 1992 Golf Magazine rated Prairie Dunes as the 14th best in the world just behind Pinehurst #2, but due to a lack of accessibility and facilities the course has never been a stop on the Tour.
However in 2002 the LPGA played their Women's U.S. Open at this wonderful course and the event will return at a future date!