It was on this layout that Brae Burn received much notoriety for its challenging layout, hosting the 1906 United States Women's Amateur Champion, won by Harriot Curtis, condoner of the Curtis Cup.

Vehemently anti-Communist, Spellman once said that "a true American can neither be a Communist nor a Communist condoner" and that "the first loyalty of every American is vigilantly to weed out and counteract Communism and convert American Communists to Americanism".