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The following is a partial list of golf courses designed by Pete Dye. [1] He is credited with designing more than 200 courses internationally during his lifetime. [2] In 1982, Sports Illustrated wrote that Dye had a reputation for transforming "unpromising" land into picturesque and challenging golf courses, that required a style of play called "target golf".
While he lived at Hickory Hill, Robert Kennedy became Attorney General of the United States in 1961; a United States senator in 1965; and a presidential candidate in 1968. Hickory Hill was placed on the market in 2004 by the Kennedy family at an asking price of $25 million and then subsequently withdrawn in November 2008.
A total of 32 houses built in the 1880s are part of the current historic district, including one built by Ocean City Association member Ezra B. Lake. More houses were built in the succeeding decades, aided by improved transportation. By the 1920s, most available lots in the originally settled northern portion of Ocean City were already built.
Hickory golf is a variation of golf played with hickory-shafted golf clubs. In the United States the main organizing body is the Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG); in Canada, the Golf Historical Society of Canada ; in the U.K., the British Golf Collectors Society ; and leading on the continent, the European Association of Golf Historians and ...
Hickory Hill (Ashland, Virginia), NRHP-listed Hickory Hill (Glasgow, Virginia) , listed on the NRHP in Rockbridge County, Virginia Hickory Hill (McLean, Virginia) , the home of the Robert F. Kennedy family
Ocean City, [oʊʃɪn sɪtiː] officially the Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, along the East Coast of the United States.The population was 6,844 at the 2020 U.S. census, although during summer weekends the city hosts between 320,000 and 345,000 vacationers and up to eight million visitors annually.
The club was founded on January 13, 1898, and hosted the U.S. Open the following year. Its original golf course at the Roland Park campus was the first 18-hole course built in the state of Maryland. [2] The USGA lists Baltimore Country Club as one of the first 100 clubs established in the United States.
Ocean Downs is a casino and harness racing track in Berlin, Maryland, near Ocean City. It is owned and operated by Churchill Downs Inc. Construction started in 1947 as a harness racetrack , and it opened in 1949 with Ocean Downs Racing Association (ODRA) as owner.