Engineers Country Club

Engineers Country Club is a country club located in Roslyn Harbor, New York, on the historic Gold Coast on the north shore of Long Island.HistoryThe club has an 18-hole championship golf course which hosted the PGA Championship in 1919 and the United States Amateur Championship in 1920. The competitions were won by Jim Barnes and Chick Evans, respectively. Herbert Strong was the architect of the original golf course and Devereux Emmet remodeled part of the course in 1921. The golf course was constructed on the former grounds of the W. R. Willet Manor estate. The property was purchased by the Engineers Country Club in March 1917, which had been formed on January 21, 1917 by the Engineers Club of Manhattan.The first round on the newly constructed course was played on June 29, 1918. The first foursome out consisted of club president B. G. M. Thomas, vice president Nat M. Garland, Frank Dupont, chairman of the Building Committee, and T. I. Jones, one of the governors. After completion of his round, Garland described the 18th green as "sui generis, rara avis... in a class by itself".Engineers Country Club plays 6767yd yards from the black tees, from the blue tees, 6218yd from the white, from the gold tees and from the red women's tees. The women's championship tees are farther back at.