Old Warson Country Club

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Old Warson Country Club
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Location of the Old Warson Country Club in Missouri
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Location in the United States
Coordinates 38°37′01″N90°22′59″W / 38.617°N 90.383°W / 38.617; -90.383
Location Ladue, Missouri
EstablishedApril 15, 1954
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Events hosted 1971 Ryder Cup, 1957 Western Amateur, 1962 Trans-Mississippi Amateur, 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf, 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Golf, 2016 U.S. Senior Men's Amateur Golf
Website oldwarson.com
Designed by Robert Trent Jones
Par 71 [1]
Length6,946 yards (6,351 m) [1]
Course rating 74.6 [2]
Slope rating 135 [2]

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]

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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 ($83,966 today [10] ) in 1996 and $80,000 ($116,131 today [10] ) in 2006. [6]

Major tournaments held at Old Warson

YearTournamentWinner
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

  1. 1 2 "Old Warson Country Club". Amateurgolf.com. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Course Rating and Slope Database: Old Warson Country Club". United States Golf Association . Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "History of Old Warson Country Club". Old Warson Country Club. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  4. "Course List". Robert Trent Jones Society. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  5. "All-Time St. Louis Championships". James F. Healey. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 Cooperman, Jeannette (2006-07-31). "Dinner at the Club, Darling?". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  7. Diaz, Jaime (1990-09-11). "Augusta National Admits First Black Member". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  8. Staff, George White of The Sentinel. "CLUBS CHANGING IN THE AFTERMATH OF SHOAL CREEK". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  9. 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.
  10. 1 2 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.

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