87 dates, from the clubhouse permit of 1914 to the houses on the old fairways. Each links to its source and to the chapter of the history that tells the story.
The lowest 18-hole score known on the Belvedere nine, played twice around (par 60). In 1921 the amateur record stood at 65, matched that July by Tom Patterson and Babe Ritchie and again by Du Val Moore in 1923. By the end of 1923 the club's card credited Ritchie with a 58, two under par.
Par was 60 for eighteen holes (30 for the nine) throughout: the San Francisco Call gave it as sixty in 1918, and the 1923–24 card as 30 over 1,736 yards. The routing is not known to have changed, apart from the first and eighth green being relaid in 1927. The papers stop reporting low rounds after the late 1920s; the best reported later were 65 and 66 in inter-club matches. The 1923 American Annual Golf Guide gives a longer 1,957 yards, which is unexplained.
The Belvedere Land Co. files plans and a building permit for a clubhouse of about $3,500 and contracts with George M. White to build it on lot 4, block 26.
The Call reports that a golf course and tennis courts are being laid out on the north side of Belvedere Island, the part known as the "Pasture lands."
The Landmarks Society's histories date the club's opening to 23 May 1914, with 127 active and 4 junior members; no newspaper of that month mentions it.
Belvedere residents and guests from the city, Ross Valley and San Rafael play the new course all day at the formal opening.
An informal dansant at the clubhouse; the Sausalito News puts the membership near one hundred.
The Western Golf Association adds the Belvedere Country Club to its membership during 1915.
Handicap golf for men and women over "the club's sporty nine-hole course," with an open tennis tournament.
Byron "Babe" Batkin beats national clay court champion Willis Davis 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the club's Red Cross tennis tournament.
The club installs grass greens, reported the next year to be in fine shape.
R. C. "Bob" Clark moves to Belvedere as the club's instructor, the first professional the papers name there.
More than 150 golfers play the club's Red Cross tournament; Navy man Mike Brady scores 125 in a professional foursome with Black, Locke and Clark.
The San Francisco News Letter pictures George Campe driving from the first tee in front of the clubhouse.
Pro R. C. Clark stages a tournament played backward, which the Call called "Chinese" golf.
H. P. Braddock is favored, with Charles F. Preusser a possible dark horse; the result has not been found.
Officers elected: Burr W. Freer, president; F. Somers Peterson, vice president; Harrison Atwood, secretary; M. Pierce Cook, treasurer.
Frank P. Simons leaves the Belvedere links after a round to swim and vanishes; his clothes are found near the Union Fish Co. wharf and he is given up for drowned, until the papers report him alive in Seattle in January 1924.
Belvedere's challenge team of fourteen, sent up by Charles F. Preusser, lost 29 points to 4 on the Mill Valley course.
Eighteen a side on the Belvedere links; Mill Valley won 27 points to 18, and its writer described the precipice first hole, the Swiss-peak hole and the Rifle Range.
C. F. Preusser beat Henry Q. Hawes over thirty-one holes on a scorching day.
Ernest C. Mailliard won the Harry Lauder gold medal with 76 gross, 59 net, one under the 18-hole par of 60.
Women from clubs around the bay came by ferry for luncheon and an 18-hole competition won by Mrs. Ezra T. Stimson.
In the second annual home-and-home, Mill Valley's Walter Young holed his approach for a two on the uphill Matterhorn.
Belvedere won the opening round on its own course with 620; Tom Patterson and Babe Ritchie each shot 65, equalling the amateur record.
Final totals: Marin 2,042, Mill Valley 2,089, Belvedere 2,126.
The club joined the United States Golf Association with Charles F. Preusser as president.
Captain M. Pierce Cook's team won eleven of twelve foursomes against the Marin club on the island.
W. F. Stewart Jr. beat P. S. Moulton for the club championship, holing out in par at the thirty-seventh.
An intra-club team match over eighteen holes ended Blues 8, Reds 2.
Members staged a musical burlesque of themselves at the clubhouse, with music by Mark Gerstle Jr.
Belvedere beat Santa Rosa 11 to 3, and the visitors' paper called the clubhouse a beautiful rustic structure overlooking the bay.
Mill Valley beat Belvedere 9 to 5, and Mitsch and Helmore handed the Ritchie brothers their first loss in such a match.
The Green Book of Golf, 1923–24, gives the nine named holes (1,736 yards, par 30), the officers under President Burr W. Freer, pro J. W. Muirhead and Babe Ritchie's amateur record of 58.
Belvedere had the day's best team total, 601, but Marin regained the county cup; Marin's Du Val Moore shot 65, called a record by the Mill Valley Record.
On its own links Belvedere avenges a 17-to-4 defeat at Santa Rosa that April.
E. Olmsted Jr. describes greens over "yawning chasms" and terraced fairways, and calls par 30 not difficult but not easy.
Stockton wins ten of eleven matches, 28 points to 4; George Ritchie wins Belvedere's only match.
A Land Company road job removes a culvert, the marsh at the island's north end floods and stagnates, and a new culvert is installed the next day.
The photographer is reported working on pictures of the Belvedere Club's grounds for golf magazines.
An 8-to-8 tie at Belvedere gives Santa Rosa the home-and-home series 20 to 14.
Club champion W. F. Stewart shoots 66 at Belvedere, but Mill Valley wins 9 to 1 and later takes the series 28 to 5.
An 18-hole course on eighty acres of filled Tiburon Lagoon is reported to be part of the San Francisco Yacht Club's plans.
Two youths cooking quail at the clubhouse fireplace hit an employee and tie a sack over his head; nothing is stolen.
The director holes the 119-yard fourth with a clean pitch and qualifies for the Hole in One Club.
A. D. Mills's photograph of the third green appears in the magazine's "Fairways That Lure" spread.
The San Francisco Yacht Club votes to move to Belvedere and share the dredging; the slough is to be filled and the golf club enlarged to eighteen holes.
F. Crosby finishes enlarging the clubhouse kitchen and dining facilities.
One of four Chronicle aerial rotogravures of Belvedere and Tiburon, printed for the regatta, features the links.
Mill Valley 588, Belvedere 590 and Marin 599 in the first round of the county championship; George Ritchie shoots 68.
The annual meeting elects Bowers president, Britton Rey secretary and A. J. White treasurer.
Workmen remodel the green of the first and eighth holes and reseed it.
In the return leg of the annual home-and-home match, Belvedere beat Mill Valley 12 points to 5 on the Belvedere course after losing the first leg 14 to 7.
George Ritchie's 66 in the final round at Belvedere sealed the three-course triangle title over Mill Valley and Marin, with a total of 1939 (misprinted 1929 in the Record).
J. Wisby hung fewer than twenty canvases at the club, his favorite subject being Mt. Tamalpais seen from the ninth green.
More than fifty members at a club dinner put off the election of officers until 1 October while the club ran a drive for members.
New lamps, fixtures and furnishings, paid for by subscriptions and bridge-party proceeds, were chosen by a committee under Mrs. T. K. Camp.
Nagel was engaged to supervise the grounds and give golf lessons.
At the annual meeting Frank T. Bowers stepped down after two years and Gale was elected unanimously.
At the Meadow Club, Belvedere's George Ritchie was co-medalist at 76 and won a twenty-hole match to reach the semifinals.
Gale entertained the club's eighteen caddies, local boys, with dinner and a moving picture in the clubhouse.
The club ran a thirty-day membership drive, refurnished the porch and offered summer memberships to visitors.
The second round of the first four-club Marin County Cup, now including the Meadow Club, was played on the Belvedere links; Mill Valley won it.
The newly elected president directed work on a long-wanted new first tee, and Andrew Taylor White began teaching one day a week.
After two years as clubhouse hostess, Mrs. E. C. Reynvaan (formerly Mrs. A. B. Richardson) left for Madera; Mrs. Ethel Lauff succeeded her.
Twenty teams opened the spring season, and the club launched a membership drive with a reduced initiation fee.
At Belvedere's annual women's open tournament, with guests from Claremont, California and Sequoyah, Mrs. Adams took first honors with 79.
The 1931 inter-club championship closed at the Meadow Club with Marin Country Club the winner; Belvedere had lost to Meadow and Mill Valley.
The former northern California champion, almost certainly Belvedere's star, died with five others when a chartered plane crashed near Lucerne, Lake County.
During the Nights in Venice carnival the club held open house and let non-members play the course for a green fee, for the first time.
To attract members, the club suspends its initiation fee and advertises uncrowded links.
Belvedere beats Mill Valley at home in the county series but finishes fourth of four after heavy losses to Marin and the Meadow Club.
More than sixty women from across the North Bay play the inter-club tournament at Belvedere; Kay Lawler of Marin wins low gross with 76.
E. H. Belcher declines re-election after several years and Effingham Sutton is elected unanimously.
The Record reports that the club is reorganizing and has made former president C. F. Preusser its president.
Preusser extends course privileges to Tamalpais High, San Rafael High and Marin Junior College golf teams.
Through the Work Council, unemployed high-school-age boys may play on weekdays in return for work under the greenkeeper.
Coach Scoop Carlson holds tryouts for the college's new golf team at Belvedere, which issues permits in lieu of green fees.
The two clubs exchange full privileges; non-resident memberships are created and the initiation fee waived.
Belvedere members call off the North Bay women's tournament scheduled at their club that day.
The Record reports that the golf links are now used mostly by members playing individual games, while tennis draws the crowds.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. White, in charge of the grounds and clubhouse for several months, move to San Francisco.
The Belvedere Land Company announces it will take over the abandoned clubhouse and install a caretaker; the Landmarks Society dates the club's end to this day.
About four months after the takeover, the Land Company votes to sell the club's personal property against $7,950 in back rent.
A new tennis-centred Belvedere Beach Club, organized about two months earlier, is using the closed club's property.
Punnett, Parez & Hutchinson's resubdivision of part of Belvedere lays new blocks and avenues across the north end of the island.
A survey photograph shows new streets and houses across the old course and the lagoon filled into fingers of land.
St. Stephen's Guild's house tour features the Thomas Fleming Jr. home, originally the Belvedere Golf and Country Club.
The Record notes that Britton Avenue, named for Land Company founder Joseph Britton, crosses the ridge of the old course.