Old Warson Country Club
Old Warson Country Club is a country club located in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1953,[3] it hosted the 1971 Ryder Cup and the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship. The golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.[4]
Hale Irwin, the winner of three U.S. Opens, joined the club in 1974 as a junior member; since 1977 he has been an active member.[3][5]
Until 1991, Old Warson Country Club banned Black and Jewish people from joining.[6] That year, it cancelled plans to host a PGA Senior Tour event rather than change its discriminatory rules.[7][8] Several months later, the club admitted its first Black member: Frederick S. Wood, a retired executive vice president at General Dynamics.[6][9]
The initiation fee was $45,000 ($87,422 today[10]) in 1996 and $80,000 ($120,911 today[10]) in 2006.[6]
Major tournaments held at Old Warson
Year | Tournament | Winner |
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1957 | Western Amateur | Joe Campbell |
1962 | Trans-Mississippi Amateur | Bob Ryan |
1971 | Ryder Cup | Team USA |
1999 | U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship | Danny Green |
2009 | United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship | Jennifer Song |
2016 | United States Senior Men's Amateur Golf Championship | Dave Ryan |
Notes
- ^ a b "Old Warson Country Club". Amateurgolf.com. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ a b "Course Rating and Slope Database: Old Warson Country Club". United States Golf Association. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ a b "History of Old Warson Country Club". Old Warson Country Club. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "Course List". Robert Trent Jones Society. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ "All-Time St. Louis Championships". James F. Healey. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ a b c Cooperman, Jeannette (2006-07-31). "Dinner at the Club, Darling?". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ Diaz, Jaime (1990-09-11). "Augusta National Admits First Black Member". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ Staff, George White of The Sentinel. "CLUBS CHANGING IN THE AFTERMATH OF SHOAL CREEK". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ Demas, Lane (2017-08-09). Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf. UNC Press Books. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4696-3423-4.
- ^ a b 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
External links
- Official website
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