Inwood Country Club

Inwood Country Club is a private club specializing in Golf, Tennis & Beach Club in Inwood, New York, located adjacent to Jamaica Bay and just southeast of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Club information
LocationInwood, New York
Established1901, 120 years ago
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Tournaments hostedU.S. Open (1923)
PGA Championship (1921)
Websiteinwoodcc.org
Designed byDr. William Exton &
Arthur Thatcher
Par71
Length6,647 yards (6,078 m)
Course rating72.8
Slope rating137

Originally established as nine-hole course in 1901, it is one of the oldest golf courses on Long Island. The course was expanded to an eighteen-hole layout 115 years ago in 1906.[1] Prior to hosting any major championships, the course was in part redesigned by course architect Herbert Strong.[2] The front nine of the course features an unusual layout: three consecutive par 5s followed by two par 3s in a row.

In the early 1920s, Inwood hosted two major championships, won by two of the game's legends. The PGA Championship in 1921 was won by Walter Hagen, the first of his five wins in that major, then a match play competition. Two years later, 21-year-old amateur Bobby Jones won the U.S. Open, the first of his four titles in that championship.[3][4]

Inwood Country Club is the only country club in the metropolitan area to have its own private beach club, which is located a few minutes from its main house in the affluent beach town of Atlantic Beach, NY. [5][6]

1923 U.S. Open

Jones had a three shot lead entering the final round, but his lead vanished when he ended bogey-bogey-double bogey. Leaving the 18th green, Jones remarked disgustedly, "I didn't finish like a champion ... I finished like a yellow dog." When Bobby Cruickshank made birdie on the last hole to tie, Jones found himself needing to win an 18-hole playoff to secure his first championship. The next day, Jones and Cruickshank played the first 17 holes all-square. On the 18th, Jones hit his drive about 200 yards (180 m) from the green in the right rough. Calmly executing what would prove to be one of the finest shots of his career, Jones drilled a two-iron to within eight feet of the pin.[7]

Course Layout

Inwood Country Club
Tee Rating/Slope 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Blue 72.8/137 3453625145395121712194154193496 10643345634115547137640540831516647
White 71.3/134 3323425005274801602073964033347 9641843732514046336337739830176364
Par Par 44555334437 3444344443471
Handicap Handicap 1513151117937 18421416812106

References

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