Plymouth Country Club sold to golf pro Brian Quinn of 1912 Club LLC
PLYMOUTH » The year 1912 was filled with monumental events, including the recognition of Arizona as the 48th U.S. state, the founding of the Girl Scouts organization and the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean.
It also marked the start of the Plymouth Country Club in Plymouth Meeting.
It’s no small bow to that legacy that the year so vital to local golf aficionados has been celebrated in the name of the entity that recently purchased the privately owned club, the 1912 Club LLC.
“The equity members, who owned the Plymouth Country Club, voted unanimously to sell the club to Brian Quinn, managing director of 1912 Club LLC, which will continue it with golf and country club and swimming operations,” noted the club’s president Chuck Caparo. “From our standpoint, everything we’re doing is extremely positive and the membership is excited about what is going to transpire. It won’t be a major change to the activity of the club itself but there will be major improvements that will be done to the golf course, the clubhouse and facilities, which people will start to see in the next 60 days or so.”
Caparo noted that the club’s board of governors had been negotiating a deal with Quinn, a longtime professional golfer and head golf coach at Temple University, for the last eight months.
“Brian’s golf team from Temple has been practicing at our club for six or seven years now, and he has also sent us a lot of members and has been a real partner over the years,” Caparo said. “He started expressing some interest in the possibility of buying the club. Several country clubs and golf clubs were sold in the last 18 months to large corporations that specialize in golf course management. Every year things get tighter and you need to find ways to infuse capital into a club for improvements and we think this will be good for us as members. People at our club love golf and love hospitality, and we will still have all the weddings and banquets we always have.”
According to his bio, Quinn won 17 professional tournaments and played on the Asian PGA, South African PGA and South American PGA Tours and in 2008 directed Temple to its first team title since 2005 by capturing the Philadelphia Big Five Invitational by a stroke. His team, the Owls, also finished second by a stroke at the St. Bonaventure Invitational and posted top 10 finishes at The McLaughlin, Old Dominion and Rutgers.
Quinn is also the director of instruction at the BQ Golf Academy in Conshohocken.
The Plymouth Country Club course at 888 Plymouth Road, Plymouth Meeting, was designed by renowned golf course architect William S. Flynn, whose prominent work includes Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island, Cherry Hills Country Club, Lancaster Country Club and Merion Golf Club.
“Plymouth Country Club was formed by some wealthy guys from Norristown, originally as a 9-hole course and expanding
to an 18-hole golf course in the 1920s,” Caparo said. “It’s legacy is important to the club members. I’ve been a die-hard Plymouth Country Club member for 34 years and want to see the legacy continue.”