Villanova Professor’s Love of Golf Has Made Him a Golf Course Archivist

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Image via Merion Golf Club.

A Villanova University professor from Wayne has taken his love of golf and created an online catalog of 500 golf courses, writes Jim Finnegan for Main Line Today.

Each course is documented hole by hole with pictures, scorecards, a map and other factoids.

Joe Bausch was a competitive high school golfer in the Midwest and would drive by Cobbs Creek Golf Club on his way to work.

Cobb’s Creek was open to everyone and amazingly popular when it opened in 1916, but over the years fell into neglect.

Bausch and Cobb’s Creek aficionado Mike Cirba saw the beauty beneath and formed the Friends of Cobb’s Creek Golf Course in 2008. Their 344-page history of the course set off a chain reaction, triggering fundraising and restoration efforts on behalf of Cobbs Creek.

He and his wife also designed a  “welcome to the area” website for his organic chemistry students.

Bausch added golf courses he’d played to the site. One course became three—and then all public courses within 30 minutes of Villanova. Twenty-five became 50 … and so on.

“Now my students tend to say, ‘Wow, you play a lot of golf,’” he quips.

Read more about Joe Bausch’s golf course collection here.

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