Englewood Golf Club

Englewood Golf Club
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Coordinates	40°52′19″N 73°58′30″W / 40.872°N 73.975°WCoordinates: 40°52′19″N 73°58′30″W / 40.872°N 73.975°W
Location	Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Elevation	50–180 feet (15–55 m)
Established	1896; 126 years ago
Type	Private
Total holes	18
Tournaments hosted	U.S. Open: (1909); U.S. Amateur: (1906)
Par	71
Length	6,205 yards (5,674 m); (for 1909 U.S. Open)

Englewood Golf Club was a private golf course in the eastern United States, located in Englewood and Leonia, New Jersey, just west of New York City. Opened 126 years ago as a nine-hole course in 1896, a second nine was added four years later; it hosted the U.S. Amateur in 1906 and the U.S. Open in 1909.^[1]^[2]

The golf course met its demise in the 1960s when the approach ramp to the George Washington Bridge cut right through the middle of the property.^[2] This portion of the New Jersey Turnpike was built on the border between Englewood and Leonia, and bisected the golf course; the clubhouse was in the northeast corner of the property. Play continued on the divided course, but the financial burden became too great, and the course closed in 1976.^[1] Cross Creek Point condominiums were built on the northeast half in Englewood, and single-family houses were built on the southwest half in Leonia, with a street named Golf Course Drive.

Additional information can be found by reading: "The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes" by Daniel Wexler.^[2]

In 1926, the club hosted the wedding reception of New York Post editor Joseph Cookman and his bride Mary Bass, editor of the Ladies Home Journal.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gone but not forgotten: A look at NJGSA's founding clubs". New Jersey State Golf Association. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Fensom, Michael J. (June 20, 2009). "Englewood Golf Club, once a piece of golf history, now a piece of the Turnpike". Inside Jersey. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
^ Mary Gibson Bass Oral History Project Columbia University 1976 Volume 1, page 30

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[njsgafc-1] "Gone but not forgotten: A look at NJGSA's founding clubs". New Jersey State Golf Association. Retrieved May 11, 2018.

[insdej-2] Fensom, Michael J. (June 20, 2009). "Englewood Golf Club, once a piece of golf history, now a piece of the Turnpike". Inside Jersey. Retrieved May 11, 2018.

[3] Mary Gibson Bass Oral History Project Columbia University 1976 Volume 1, page 30

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