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In the early 1930's, Frank H. Goodyear II, a prominent Buffalonian and his wife, Dorothy Knox, daughter of Seymour Knox, one of the founders of the Woolworth Corporation, frequently enjoyed horseback riding and entertaining at Crag Burn, their summer home in East Aurora. Crag Burn gets its origins from Scottish words "Crag" meaning "top of the bluff" and "Burn", meaning "small stream." This is an apt description of this beautiful property with its house, magnificent stables and grounds that were designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, whose work includes New York City's Central Park and Buffalo's park systems.

By 1950, the land near the stable was seeing very little use. Goodyear's son Bobby, who was an accomplished sportsman with a passion for golf, had an idea to change the overgrown polo fields into a world class golf course. Bobby enlisted the help of family friend and prominent American golf course architect, Robert Trent-Jones, who agreed to design a golf course for the Crag Burn property. Bobby then enlisted the help of his sister and brother-in-law, Dottie and Clint Wyckoff, and their sons Peter, Ranny and Kevin to convince their friends to help fund the construction of a club where "a group of friends could play golf," and the course was on its way.

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