The Quogue Field Club's current nine hole golf was designed by Scotsman Tom Bendelow and was opened for play in the summer of 1901. Bendelow, nicknamed "The Johnny Appleseed of American Golf", was a prolific golf course architect. He is recognized as an "Architect of Distinction" by the American Society of Golf Course Architects. After the 1921 season, the Field Club added nine additional holes on land extending west from Ocean Avenue to Ogden Pond and bordering on the Quogue Canal. The new nine holes were designed by James Hepburn, also a Scot, and head professional at National Golf Links of America. Hepburn had been secretary of the British PGA, had two top-10 finishes in that nation's Open and had chaired the PGA of America's organizing committee. The 1938 Hurricane did an unprecedented amount of damage to Quogue and its environs, including the destruction of the Ocean Avenue and Beach Lane Bridges to the beach. The Village decided to construct a single bridge by extending Post Lane to the canal – which cut right through the center of the Club's back nine holes. The Club made a valiant, but ultimately not very successful, effort to restructure the holes around the new extended Post Lane and new bridge. With the advent of World War II and the steady decline of active Club membership, the Club closed the course for play in 1942. In 1945, golf resumed at the Club on the original nine holes east of Ocean Avenue. After a number of years of research, including careful study of aerial photographs taken by the Army Corps of Engineers, the course was recreated using Microstation software by Ian Andrew Golf Design and Tyler Morgan. Mark Ruddy was then commissioned to paint the golf course as it appeared just before the 1938 Hurricane. Mark Ruddy was born and raised in New Hampshire. He studied drawing and sculpture in college. He moved to New York City where he took up oil painting. After the birth of his son, Mark and his family left Brooklyn and settled in the Hamptons on the eastern end of Long Island. He worked as a freelance illustrator creating wine labels for some of the local vineyards. After a chance meeting with an interior designer, Mark began to turn his attention to painting murals. He ran a successful mural painting business for twenty years before moving back to New Hampshire to take a job teaching painting, drawing and sculpture at New Hampshire Technical Institute. Mark continues to exhibit his paintings, drawings and collages. The original painting entitled, "Quogue Field Club 1938", is an acrylic on canvas and is 30" x 40". Available for sale are limited edition prints on 100% Rag Acid Free Textured Paper of 50 (18" by 24"); 25 (30" x 40"); and 25 APs.