Everything about Newport Country Club totally explained
Newport Country Club is a private
golf club in
Newport, Rhode Island in the
United States. The club was founded by American businessmen
John Jacob Astor IV,
Theodore Havemeyer and three members of the
Vanderbilt family, Cornelius II, Frederick William, and William Henry II in 1894. It was one of the five clubs which founded the
United States Golf Association in that same year. At that time of its founding, Newport was at the peak of its prestige as the favorite
summer colony of America's wealthy elite; the city had one of America's earliest golf clubs since the sport was played almost exclusively by the rich when it was first introduced to the United States.
The clubhouse was designed by architect
Whitney Warren. The course was designed in 1894 by
William Davis, the club's first professional. Originally designed as a 9 hole course, it was expanded to 18 by architect Donald Ross.
A. W. Tillinghast, famous for such designs as
Winged Foot,
Baltusrol, and the
San Francisco Golf Club, was hired to remodel the course layout in 1924. Since 1995, restoration on some of the course has been completed by
Ron Forse. The clubhouse, a former Vanderbilt mansion, went under extensive renovation in 2005.
In 1895 the club hosted both the first
U.S. Amateur Championship and the first
U.S. Open. In 1995, in celebration of the
U.S. Amateur Championship centennial, Newport Country Club hosted the 1995
U.S. Amateur Championship, which was won by
Tiger Woods. It was the venue of the 2006
U.S. Women's Open, which was won by
Annika Sörenstam.
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