{"id":2110,"date":"2012-05-19T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2012-05-19T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T04:00:12","slug":"william-j-burke-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/william-j-burke-golf-course\/","title":{"rendered":"William J. Burke Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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In the Fall of 1929, the William J. Burke Memorial Golf Course in the southwest corner of campus opened for use of Notre Dame students, faculty, clergy, and friends of the University.\u00a0 The course was donated by Notre Dame Trustee William J. Burke, President of the Vulcan Last Corporation of Portsmouth, Ohio.\u00a0 Vulcan was involved in a wide variety of industries and its divisions included the Vulcan Golf Company and the Vulcan Aircraft Company<\/a>.\u00a0 Burke never played the course – he died suddenly of a heart attack in July 1928.<\/p>\n

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Aerial view of campus with the Burke Golf Course in the foreground, c1933. Construction of the golf course required the permanent closure of public access to Dorr Road, which ran east to west through South Quad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interest in the game began to grow around the turn of the 20th century.\u00a0 In 1901, a course was created on the north side of St. Mary’s Lake [Scholastic<\/em>, 05\/04\/1901, page 522].\u00a0 In the 1910s, students were known to play on the quad in front of Badin and Bond Halls.\u00a0 Otherwise, students had to venture off-campus to courses in South Bend.\u00a0 As with other sports such as baseball<\/a>, the students organized golf clubs.\u00a0 The number of interested students continued to grow, which propelled the team to varsity minor sport status in 1923.<\/p>\n

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Male students playing golf\u00a0on the Burke Memorial Golf Course with South Dining Hall in the background, c1930s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 18-hole course was first shortened to accommodate the building of the Rockne Memorial in 1939.\u00a0 More land was taken in the 1950s for the construction of Pangborn and Fisher Halls.\u00a0 In 1995, the back nine was sacrificed for the construction of the West Quad dorms – O’Neill, Keough, McGlinn, and Welsh Family Halls.\u00a0 These new halls became necessary for the displaced male students of Grace and Flanner Halls when they were converted from residential halls to office space.\u00a0 The women of Siegfried and Knott Halls were moved to McGlinn and Welsh Family to balance the gender mix on West Quad.<\/p>\n

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Burke Memorial Golf Course – View of the first hole sign post with construction equipment in the background, 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sources:
\nScholastic<\/em>
\nPNDP 30-Go-04<\/a>
\nUPCO 9\/101-106<\/a>
\nGNDL 6\/21<\/a>
\nGBBY 45G\/0559<\/a>
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In the Fall of 1929, the William J. Burke Memorial Golf Course in the southwest corner of campus opened for use of Notre Dame students, faculty, clergy, and friends of the University.\u00a0 The course was donated by Notre Dame Trustee William J. Burke, President of the Vulcan Last Corporation of Portsmouth, Ohio.\u00a0 Vulcan was involved … Continue reading “William J. Burke Golf Course”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,71],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-buildings-and-grounds","tag-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:50:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}