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Fresh Meadow Country Club pin flag A. W. Tillinghast open ryder british pga

Fresh Meadow Country Club pin flag A. W. Tillinghast open ryder british pga

$ 158.4

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    Description

    Fresh Meadow Country Club
    is a
    country club
    with a
    golf course
    in the eastern
    United States
    , located on
    Long Island
    in
    Lake Success, New York
    ,
    its home since 1946. The club opened in the
    New York City
    borough of
    Queens
    in 1923,
    [1]
    with a golf course designed by noted course architect
    A. W. Tillinghast
    ,
    [1]
    and hosted two
    major championships
    in the early 1930s
    The country club was named for the
    Fresh Meadows
    neighborhood of Northeast Queens just south of Horace Harding Boulevard now the
    Long Island Expressway
    , near 183rd Street.
    [1]
    The
    PGA Championship
    was held at Fresh Meadow Country Club in
    1930
    , won by
    Tommy Armour
    ,
    [2]
    [3]
    and the
    1932
    U.S. Open
    , won by its former club pro
    Gene Sarazen
    .
    [4]
    [5]
    (Sarazen was the runner-up in 1930, falling
    1 down
    in the 36-hole championship match to Armour.)
    In 1937, the golf course hosted a charity game between
    John Montague
    ,
    Babe Ruth
    ,
    Babe Didrikson
    , and Sylvania Annenberg,
    [6]
    [7]
    a game that was watched by 10,000 fans, some of whom rushed the golf course and left Babe Ruth's shirt in tatters.
    [8]
    [9]
    In 1941, Ruth played
    Ty Cobb
    in a celebrity golf match at the course to benefit the
    USO
    , the second of three matches in three cities (
    Boston
    , New York,
    Detroit
    )