About the Club

This year's host, Bill Miller, was able to give us some great insights about the site for this year's Invitational, the Schuylkill Country Club.

Attire - "The club is very informal with only two minor requirements: No jeans, and no short shorts or cut-offs.  Pretty simple.  For the Friday night dinner, if the guys want to impress the gals with a jacket and no tie, that would be great, but if you want to scrap the jacket, that's fine too."

Course Layout -  "SCC is a Donald Ross designed course, dating back to 1921.  If any of you watched the AT&T tournament from Aronimink several weeks ago, you will see a very similar Ross design on a smaller scale.  The greens are basically upside-down saucers surrounded by closely shaved chipping areas.  My advice to anyone playing the course is to keep the ball below the hole on every shot."

Area History - "If anyone is familiar with John O'Hara's books (From the Terrace, Appointment in Samarra, Ten North Frederick), you will find it interesting that they were written about people from this area, where he grew up, and many of the events took place right at SCC and the Pottsville Club."