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Carolina Country Club was founded as Raleigh Country Club on April 15, 1910 (not to be confused with the club of the same name founded in 1948), when a certificate of incorporation was filed with the North Carolina Secretary of State.
Waverley Country Club in Oregon, United States. A country club is a privately-owned club, [1] often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.
Muskegon Country Club was founded in 1908 and is a private country club owned by the RedWater Collection [1] The club features a private 18 hole golf course in Muskegon, Michigan located on 130 acres of dunes between Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake. [2] The course was originally laid out by early 20th-century golf course designer Tom Bendelow. [3]
The club was founded 124 years ago in 1899 and was moved to its current location in 1921. [4] [5] Golf Connoisseur Magazine rated Phoenix Country Club among top 100 Most Prestigious Private Clubs in America in 2006. The club was chosen for the “ultimate mix of course, history, membership, tradition and class.”
The country club was established in 1901 by mostly Jewish members of Chicago’s Standard Club, on the site of the Briggs farm, only after the first property choice belonging to a Dutchman named Ravisloot. The membership decided on Ravislow, eventually settling on the name Ravisloe. [2] [3]
Salem Country Club is a private country club in Peabody, Massachusetts. The club's early history was unstable. In the late 19th- and early 20th century, the club moved between four locations in Salem and Peabody. In 1925, the club made its final move to western Peabody converting a territory called Sanders Farm into an 18-hole golf course.
Founded in 1892 as a polo club, in 1895, the club moved to a site in the city of Clayton where it hired James Foulis, winner of the 1896 United States Open Golf Championship, to build a nine-hole course. The course opened in October 1896. In 1913, with Clayton becoming more populated, the club looked to move further west.
The club's finances in its early years were precarious and badly impacted by the Great Depression. By the late 1930s, it was unable to meet its obligations. In 1940, the club's lien holder foreclosed and held a public auction of its assets. Several members reorganized themselves as Congressional Country Club, Inc. and offered the sole bid of ...