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The Oldest Golf Courses In America
Dan Kelly:
All I know about this is:
Town and Country is NOT, as has been alleged above, the oldest club or course (continuously operated and/or intermittently out of business) west of the Mississippi.
How do I know this, for certain?
Because I know, for certain, that Town and Country is EAST of the Mississippi. Only a couple of hundred yards east, I suppose -- but definitely east.
Derek_L:
I will concur with Dan that Town and Country is east of the Mississippi and not west as stated above. As for the club started in the late 1700's, I was on Golf Digest's webpage lastnight and noticed that they had a blurp regarding, I beleive the Charleston club, or something like that, whish was founded around 1788 or so, but I am unsure and doubt if it is in existence today. ::)
Tyler Kearns:
Dan,
pardon by cartographic error. i simply took the information given to me without checking a map. thanks for the correction.
"The First 100 Clubs in America"
-Golf Magazine January 1995
(for the sake of brevity, i'll list until Town & CC founding)
1786-South Carolina GC (NKA CC of Charleston)
1794-Savannah GC
1854-Philadelphia Cricket
1856-Germania T & CC (Saginaw, Michigan)
1875-Vesper CC (Tyngsboro, Mass.)
1878-Rockaway Hunting (Cedarhurst, NY)
1879-Olympic Club
1880-Edgewood Club of Tivoli (Tivoli, NY)
1881-Meadow Brook Club (Jericho, NY)
1882-Pittsburgh Field Club
The Country Club
1885-Tuxedo GC (Tuxedo Park, NY)
1886-Dorset Field Club (Dorset, Vermont)
1887-Dakota Dunes CC
Essex CC (West Orange, NJ)
Foxburg Club (Foxburg, Penn.)
Onteora Club (Tannersville, NY)
Quoque Field Club (Quoque, NY)
1888-Ausable Club (St.Huberts, NY)
Richmond CC (Staten Is., NY)
St.Andrew's GC (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY)
Town & CC (St.Paul, MN)
A_Clay_Man:
I believe the distinction of eighteen holes was the criterior for both chicago and del monte
Robert_Walker:
The Oldest Golf Course in North America is located in Middlesboro, Kentucky, not far from the Cumberland Gap. I am not sure of the year it opened.
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