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The Yale Golf Course, or Yale University Golf Course, is a golf course in New Haven, Connecticut, owned and operated by Yale University. Yale is home to the men and women's Yale Golf Team and hosts three collegiate invitational tournaments each year. The course is primarily open to university students, alumni, and the university community.
Notable Yale-associated members included U.S. President Howard Taft, who taught law at his alma mater, and Yale alumnus Walter Camp, the father of American football. Since the creation of Yale Golf Course the club does not have as strong of a Yale connection, but many members have dual memberships at both courses or work at Yale University.
In the fall of 1896, Yale Alumni Weekly reported that a "new game," golf, was the "rage among seniors" at the school. Students used hockey sticks and tennis balls to simulate golf clubs and golf balls on a "makeshift course" on campus.
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Gil Hanse. Gilbert Hanse (born August 12, 1963) is an American golf course designer. Hanse, along with his business partner Jim Wagner, was selected to design the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course, the first Olympic venue to host golf since 1904.
In western New Haven, the university holds 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of athletic facilities, including the Yale Golf Course. [121] In 2008, Yale purchased the 17-building, 136-acre (0.55 km 2) former Bayer HealthCare complex in West Haven, Connecticut, [122] the buildings of which are now used as laboratory and research space. [123]
The Yale Bulldogs are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, 21 in men's golf, one in men's hockey, one in men's lacrosse, and 16 in sailing.
In 1892 with his brother, Edwin Burr Curtiss, and others he started the Fairfield County Golf Club, today known as the Greenwich Country Club. [4] Curtiss served as the club's first President, from 1892 to 1896, and again from 1921 to 1934.