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The Omaha Country Club was founded on September 30, 1889, in what is today’s Country Club Historic District. With articles of incorporation filed June 18, 1900, the owners were noted as WH McCord, Arthur P. Guiou, Chas. T. Kountze and 97 others.
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In 1988 Sieckmann founded Creative Golf, Inc. a company that primarily developed and organized the Mutual of Omaha Pro-Am. [1] In 2005, he opened Sieckmann Golf Labs, a golf performance and teaching center in southwest Omaha, [2] but sold his teaching business to Omaha Country Club. He is currently Director of Golf instruction and training at ...
The city has hosted a number of important sporting events. Since 1950 Omaha has hosted the baseball College World Series. The Cox Classic golf tournament was part of the second-level circuit now known as the Korn Ferry Tour from 1996 to 2013. The circuit returned to Omaha in 2017 with the Pinnacle Bank Championship.
The second site, located on the west, was the Omaha Field Club. Founded in 1900, it was Omaha's first country club and golf course, and is the namesake of the neighborhood. By the turn of the 20th century, many of Omaha's most noteworthy citizens had houses designed and built in the district by many prominent architects of the time.
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The University of Nebraska at Omaha relocated from its North Omaha campus to a 30-acre (120,000 m 2) parcel next to the park in 1937, sealing the park's size permanently. In the 1940s native Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett set up a golf ball stand at the golf course in the park. [ 17 ]
In 1931, the city acquired land north of Military Avenue and it became Benson Park. A 9-hole golf course opened in the park that year, but was closed in 1947. The golf course reopened in the 1960s with an 18-hole golf course. [1] The Omaha Tornado of 1975 lifted into the clouds at Benson Park, between the ice rink and lake. [2]