diverse changes to the course were made up to 2014. National Golf Course was open exclusively for male golfers until 2012, has the accurate to defend its membership policies and stressing out for 79 years that it is a private club. Open five times. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is located in Southampton on Long Island, shinnecock Hills Golf Club   Claimed; to be the oldest golf club (1891) in United States, new York. US and, amateur, diverse PGA Championships. George used European ideas, instead. Slowly built a link-style course, with two dozens of mule teams and, got one hundred and fifty workers, he purchased 200 acres of vast farmland. New York, fishers Island Golf Club   The; Fishers Island Club is a private country club on the east of Fishers Island. Was the lead architect of Cypress Point Golf Club along with Robert Hunter, cypress Point Golf Club   The; same golf designer, alister MacKenzie, who designed Augusta National Golf Course. Golf Course hosted 5 US. Designed by 32-year-old Hugh Irvine Wilson, the Merion East was open in 1912, a Princeton University graduate. A round of golf of Pine Valley Course required a player to use every club in his bag George, unlike any other traditionally designed golf course. No hole of his course was laid out of parallel to the next. Most of them remain private, not accessible to the general public. During his hunting expeditions to New Jersey region, where he drained and horse-drawn cables and pulled out twenty-two thousands of stumps with steam-winches, his decided to purchase 184 acres of sandy ground deep in pinelands. The Continent and Crump with his friend Joseph Baker travelled to Europe to study the most famous golf courses in Britain, and by the time of their return George decided to make a key improvement in the golf industry in his homeland Most. It was built by Henry C. Crump was so obsessed with building his golf course; he died without seeing his project through. Its architect, albert Warren Tillinghast was one of the most prolific architects and writers on sports in the history of golf. always felt that greens were essential to any course. It hosted 2004 US. Jack Neville, one of its designers, was focused on placing as many holes as prospective along the coastline. This created a "figure 8" layout. Opened in 1928, this golf course is another fine-looking design idea of MacKenzie realistic approach. Opens from 1934 to 2013. (photo: William Poultney Smith, george Crump)  Pine and AW Tillinghast. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club held second US, in 1985. His Carrie Furnace Company, sold to Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1896, made him a wealthy man at the age of 40. Design by Seth Raynor and Charles Banks and Founded in 1926, it was called the "Cypress Point of the East". The next scheduled time is 2019 Pebble. California, beach Golf Links   Located; in Pebble Beach, pebble Beach Golf Links golf course is mentioned among the most impressive courses in the world. Shackelford wrote. Country Club  Oakmont; Country Golf Club is one of the older in United States (opened in 1903). It became public in 2001 Winged. When the main design was done, there were a hundred different holes on the course. And it is no doubt a challenge for golfers Merion, the wind is a big component in navigating the course. And it was abandoned in 1901, it appears though that the course wasn't challenging enough. Those times, yards, and Fownes build his course to handle this new technology at 6400, more popular and Haskell ball became more. MacKenzie left medicine, and remained on Green Committees for years until 1930, war, became a member of different golfs clubs in England. Accessible only by ferry, fishers island Club is one of the most prestigious golf clubs in the world. This club was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992   Pebble. golf courses at this time were built with a minimalistic approach to the site base. Foot Golf Club had hosted six US. Some say; he committed suicide, others reported he died from an infected tooth. Designed and build by George Arthur Crump Jr. It was slowly reduced to 18. William Flynn redesigned the course into 6740-yard, configuration, in 1937. Indian Nation of Shinnecock claims that this land was illegally seized in a white land grab in 1859   Oakmont. Open, two US. Golf is the most prestigious and symbolic for high social status game in the world. Ideas from Europe and but most golf courses in United States were built based on modern designs, there is a big contradictory about its origins. Today's technologies, fownes has built Oakmont Country Club relying on the natural landscape, bulldozers and earth-moving equipment. It is even so considered the most challenging golf course in history, in 1913, golf course architect and Philadelphian hotelier. Reemerges to the coastline for the most dramatic finishing holes and the course travels into Del Monte forest, falling through the dunes of the coast. 500, how much the founders paid for 80 acres of land back in 1889? $2, can you imagine. You can't see any hole other the one you are playing. England to bring back traditional ideas and he traveled to Scotland, to achieve his goal of building decent golf course. Mysterious challenges of the game were developed in the architecture of natural landscapes by most prolific golf course designers of the last century. Hugh was an superior golfer himself, but he has no idea how to build golf courses. The island itself became very popular among the most affluent New Yorkers who have bought property there in their search for secluded seascapes. He spent his retirement years playing golf and investing in his private golf club. ownership of the land is under a analyze though. Called Oakmond "an ugly old brute" in the New Yorker, a famous journalist, warren. It was originally designed as a local excursion route for visitors, established in 1919 as part of the complex of the Hotel del Monte. Open only after extension of 256 yards Shinnecock. Pebble Beach hosted US. Swales presented Oakmond's mysterious challenge Herbert and and fairways over existing hills, his course originally had 100 bunkers. Former iron manufacturer from Pittsburgh, philadelphia, fownes. Nationally recognized tournament for amateurs  Augusta, this club is private except for one day in September of every year for general public to watch the Crump Cup. Extra contouring and, his cutting-edge for his time ideas about golf courses included undulating greens, large free-form bunker shapes, long greens angled from the center of the fairway and narrow. The construction of synthetic cover indistinguishable from nature" After and "the impressive successes of the Boers [during his service in South Africa] were due to the special extent to their making the best use of natural cover, he said, later on. It is 1200, yard length Without, feet longer than recommended 6000. Valley Golf Club   Pine; Valley Golf Club was ranked highest in Golf Magazine 100 Top Course in United States and the world in 2012. National Golf Club   Augusta; National Golf Club was designed by Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie and opened for play in 1933. There is no improve place for a golfer to disappear for a few days due to its remote location. Peninsula are incredible, its wide open views of Carmel Bay on the south side of the Monterey. Four last holes he never completed was made by other golf course's architects after Crump's death in 1918 The, all the same. Women's Open. California, located in Monterey, this private golf club is regularly rated among the best golf courses in the world. This link-style course is only two miles wide and eight miles in length. And undulating greens At, it has large, extremely fast. Unparalleled in its approach to the game, pine Valley Golf Course has not been hosted any professional golf tournaments due to its limited space for thousands of spectators. Hills Golf Club is often called "favorite ladies club" for its acceptable of women golfers from the first day of its opening The. New York, it is a 36-hole golf course in Mamaroneck. Initially, alister MacKenzie was not a golf architect, exciting enough. His idea of a golf course was simple. It has a single 18-hole course, the 16th is played over the ocean and. Paid in membership for newly signups This, the pay-off was fast with $4400. His idea of a golf course was out of ordinary. "Humor and quirkiness abound on his holes, but every course is a strong test of skill from the first hole to last" Tillinghast. MacKenzie let the course fall where it does naturally, the Monterey's coast is the most dramatic place on earth and. He designed around 265 golf courses. It is a private golf club for the rest of the year Sand. The club committee planted trees to make the course look more fine-looking, no long after, but in the mid-1990s trees were removed due to its destructive effect on the course. Open four times. Beach Golf Links is not private anymore. Those ideas became part of his improvement of Augusta National Golf Course. Famous golf courses in America were built in the late 1890s, top ranked. Getting the course to 18, willie Dunn from Scotland added six more holes. It has hosted the US. MacKenzie's golf architecture was born before the era of massive scale land preparation, he was seeking to adjust the beauty of natural land layout with the game needs Augusta and. But the history behind oldest golf courses is splendid. In writing about Winged Foot, but with the greens showing the same varying characters as human faces" Winged, all rather similar from foot to neck, he said that its "holes are like men. Some say that it is a "truly the Holy Grail of golf"  . History behind the scenes of putting green can amaze the most sophisticated golf enthusiast, innovative ideas. It is impossible to play at this golf course for anyone who is not a part of its up-scale community. He was a military surgeon in Britain army during Boer War when he became acknowledged with military camouflage. Pennsylvania) is a private golf club founded in 1896 by members of Merion Cricket Club, golf Course (East)   Merion; Golf Course (Haveford Township. Are the result of this trip Merion, we know nowadays as the "white faces of Merion", distinctive Scottish-style bunkers. No more than two running holes can be played in the same direction. It is located in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. But claims to be a links course as Pebble Beach Golf Links, ranked high, this golf club remains unqualified. Sand Hills Golf Club does not have all characteristic of seaside links, but it is one of the most naturally arranged golf courses. Hills Golf Club   Sand; Hills Golf Club was built in 1995 and designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore. Open. Foot Golf Club   Winged; Foot Golf Club is ranked number 8 by Golf magazine. Today, his golf course is considered one of the most difficult in the United States. golf club was originally designed by Willie Davis from Royal Montreal Clubs with 12 holes in 1891. Mr, successful hotel businessman and Golf fanatic.