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The Bay Hill Club & Lodge is a private golf club and hotel in the southeastern United States, located in Bay Hill, Florida, a suburb southwest of Orlando. [3] The first 18 holes at Bay Hill (Champion and Challenger nines) were designed by Dick Wilson in 1961, and were built by Bob Simmons. Considered one of Wilson's best works, the course ...
William Stephen Flynn (December 25, 1890 – January 24, 1944) was a prominent golf course architect during the early part of the 20th century. Flynn is most noted for designing Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island and Cherry Hills Country Club, Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Lancaster Country Club, and for his work at the Merion Golf Club.
Volcano Golf and Country Club – Hawaii's highest course, situated at over 4,200 feet (adding 10-25 yards to every swing). Only a mile from Kilauea Volcano and Halemaʻumaʻu. [16] [17] Waikoloa G.C. (Beach Course • Kings' Course), Waikoloa Beach. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (1981). [18] Waikoloa Village G.C., Waikoloa Village.
It is played each March at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, a private golf resort owned since 1974 by Arnold Palmer in Bay Hill, a suburb southwest of Orlando, Florida. The event was founded in 1979 as a successor to the Florida Citrus Open Invitational, which debuted in 1966 and was played at Rio Pinar Country Club, east of Orlando, through 1978 ...
Southern Hills also has the typical facilities of a country club, including extensive banqueting facilities, a fitness center, swimming and diving pools, and tennis courts. Southern Hills offers swimming, personal training, and tennis instruction. The course is ranked No. 30 among Golf Digest's 2013–2014 "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses". [8]
Shinnecock Hills is believed to be the oldest incorporated golf club in the United States (1891), to have the oldest golf clubhouse in the U.S. (1892), and to have been the first American golf club to admit women members, which it did from the start. It is also the only golf course to host the U.S. Open in three different centuries.
Trump National Golf Club Westchester is a private golf club in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The 140-acre (57 ha) course has eighteen holes, with a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m 2 ) clubhouse. Founded in 1922 as Briarcliff Country Club , it later operated as Briar Hills Country Club and Briar Hall Golf and Country Club.
Strantz was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Walbridge. [2] [3] He graduated from Michigan State University in 1978 with a degree in turf grass management.He began his career working on the grounds crew at Inverness Club in Toledo where Tom Fazio was preparing the course for the 1979 U.S. Open. Fazio noticed that Strantz had a gift for the work and was invited to join his construction crew ...