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Pages in category "Clubs and societies in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The club has a rich history of golf, starting out in 1901 as only 9 holes on 85 acres (0.34 km 2) on the banks of the Genesee River in Rochester. The clubhouse was no more than a converted farm house. At the time, golf was a relatively new sport in America, and as popularity of the sport grew, so did the country club.
Since the show's inception in 1950, the grand prize has been the "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" or AMBR award. [1] [16] It is a 9-foot "megatrophy" with the names of past winners engraved on its base. [17] [18] From 1957 until 1971, there was also a separate "America's Best Competition Car Award" presented at the show. [19]
Wells was a partner with Ray Brock in Rod Action, a street-rod publishing venture, and set up the NSRA headquarters office in the magazine's business suite. [ 2 ] By 1973, Wells had set up thirty volunteer state representatives who advised the NSRA headquarters of regulatory developments, and also engaged with local officials and attended ...
During the 2008 summer, the club made many significant changes to the golf course in preparation for the 2009 PGA Championship. Some of these changes included adding bunkers onto the Par 4 2nd Hole; adding a new tee box on Hole 12, a par 4 which then played at almost 520 yards (480 m); and lengthening the course to 7,678 yards (7,021 m).
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Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains, or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).
The terms pole, perch, rod and rood have been used as units of area, and perch is also used as a unit of volume. As a unit of area, a square perch (the perch being standardized to equal 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards) is equal to a square rod, 30 + 1 ⁄ 4 square yards (25.29 square metres) or 1 ⁄ 160 acre.