The Middle Years  

During the ten-year period 1927 to 1937, many good times were enjoyed. However, economic hard times overtook the club as the depression of the 30's made its impact felt across the country. In 1937 the dues were lowered to $25.00 a year, but it was still impossible to keep an adequate and active membership to support the club. The bank foreclosed, and Green Hill no longer existed.

The Phillips brothers, Pratt and Lay, bought the entire property at the foreclosure sale. Becoming known as "Willow Brook Lodge", it was used as a summer home by the Pratt Phillips' family. During this period the house was enlarged, the grounds were landscaped and cattle grazed over the 9-hole golf course.

In 1954 Alfred H. Tull, a New York golf course architect, constructed an additional nine holes which were opened in 1955. The final result was an 18-hole course measuring 6,477 yards from regular tees, 6,929 yards from the championship tees, and 5,975 yards from the women's tees. The old nine holes, which are now intertwined among the new holes, are the rolling ones as well as the most interesting.