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New Haven Country Club is a private country club located in Hamden, Connecticut.Founded in 1898 NHCC is one of the oldest golf courses in America. The club was founded as the New Haven Golf Club in downtown New Haven and then moved to newly purchased farmland along Lake Whitney in Hamden later.
Under the new ownership, the course hosted the Connecticut Open, the state's official open, for the only time in its history. [14] The legendary Harry Cooper served as club pro during this era. [6] In the 1960s, the town of Groton attempted to buy the course. In 1964, the town began negotiating with Milton Slosberg, the owner of the course. [15]
This category contains articles about golf clubs and courses in Connecticut. Pages in category "Golf clubs and courses in Connecticut" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The Argentine Golf Association (AAG) handicapping system is a relatively simple one, using only a course rating, without slope. New handicaps require the submission of scorecards from five 18-hole rounds (or ten 9-hole rounds). An initial handicap of 25 is normally used as a starting point, which is then adjusted based on the submitted scores.
The slope rating of a golf course is a measure of its relative difficulty for a bogey golfer compared to a scratch golfer.It is used by handicapping systems to equalize the field by accounting for the likelihood that, when playing on more difficult courses, higher handicap players' scores will rise more quickly than their handicaps would otherwise predict.
The Connecticut Open is the Connecticut state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Connecticut State Golf Association. It has been played annually since 1931 (except for war years) at a variety of courses around the state. It was considered a PGA Tour event in the 1930s.
The inaugural tournament was won by Thomas L. Cheney, a Yale University student and Yale Golf Team member. [1] A decade later, the tournament was won in consecutive years by another member of Yale's golf team, Buck Merriman. [2] [3] In 1910, Merriman was the medalist at the event.
Wampanoag Country Club is a country club in West Hartford, Connecticut.The club was created in the early 1920s by the famed golf course architect Donald Ross.His design was considered "one of his masterpieces" and the club hosted the Connecticut Open, PGA Tour-level event, shortly after its creation.