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The New York State Open is the New York state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Metropolitan chapter of the Professional Golfers' Association of America. It has been played annually since 1978 at a variety of courses around the state, but exclusively at Bethpage Black since 1996. It is a ...
The New York State Open was the state open golf tournament of the state of New York from 1928 to 1930. In early 1928, the New York State Golf Association announced that they had the financial support from Onondaga Country Club in Syracuse to host their first state open. The first event was supposed to be limited to New York state residents but ...
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The total prize money was $2,000. According to the Star-Gazette, the total purse was the largest of any American golf event in 1921. The event would be entitled the "New York State Open." [2] According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, however, there was no evidence that a golfing organizational body in state was sponsoring the event.
This gathering of Wanamaker and the leading golf professionals of the day prepared the agenda for the formal organization of the PGA in New York City a month later. [2] The organization's first president was Robert White, one of Wykagyl's best known golf professionals of the time. Golf historians have dubbed Wykagyl "The Cradle of the PGA". [3]
Shinnecock Hills is believed to be the oldest incorporated golf club in the United States (1891), to have the oldest golf clubhouse in the U.S. (1892), and to have been the first American golf club to admit women members, which it did from the start. It is also the only golf course to host the U.S. Open in three different centuries.
Iron Cave Golf opened about a year ago. Now, the business is setting its sights on expansion. Popular Pontiac-area business sets eyes on expansion about one year after opening
Bethpage State Park is a 1,477-acre (5.98 km 2) New York state park on the border of Nassau County and Suffolk County on Long Island. The park contains tennis courts, picnic and recreational areas and a polo field, but is best known for its five golf courses, including the Bethpage Black Course , which hosted the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open Golf ...