Newport Country Club
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Established
1954 (71 years old)
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Architect
William F Bell
Country
United States
Location
Newport Beach, CA
Timezone
UTC -08:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Coordinates
33°37′0″N 117°53′51″W
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Newport Country Club, is a historic private golf club in the northeastern United States, located in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded 132 years ago in 1893, it hosted both the first U.S. Amateur Championship and the first U.S. Open in 1895.
Theodore Havemeyer, a wealthy sportsman whose family owned the American Sugar Company, played the game of golf on a trip to Pau in the south of France in 1889 and returned to his summer home in Newport excited about its future. In 1890, he and his friends rented some property on the old Castle Hill Farm and played golf on a primitive course. He convinced a few pals from the summer colony's social elite, men such as John Jacob Astor IV, Perry Belmont, and Cornelius Vanderbilt II - to purchase the 140-acre (0.57 km2) Rocky Farm property for $80,000 and establish the golf club in 1893.
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