Old Warson Country Club
Old Warson Country Club is a country club located in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1953, it hosted the 1971 Ryder Cup and the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur. The golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.
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.
Until 1991, Old Warson Country Club banned Black and Jewish people from joining. That year, it cancelled plans to host a PGA Senior Tour event rather than change its discriminatory rules. Several months later, the club admitted its first Black member: Frederick S. Wood, a retired executive vice president at General Dynamics.
The initiation fee was $45,000 ($87,422 today) in 1996 and $80,000 ($120,911 today) in 2006.
Major tournaments
| Year | Tournament | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Western Amateur | Ed Updegraff |
| 1962 | Trans-Mississippi Amateur | Bob Ryan |
| 1971 | Ryder Cup | Team USA |
| 1999 | U.S. Mid-Amateur | Danny Green |
| 2009 | U.S. Women's Amateur | Jennifer Song |
| 2016 | U.S. Senior Amateur | Dave Ryan |
Notes
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- ^ "Course Rating and Slope Database: Old Warson Country Club". United States Golf Association. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ "History of Old Warson Country Club". Old Warson Country Club. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "Course List". Robert Trent Jones Society. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ "All-Time St. Louis Championships". James F. Healey. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ Cooperman, Jeannette (July 31, 2006). "Dinner at the Club, Darling?". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Diaz, Jaime (September 11, 1990). "Augusta National Admits First Black Member". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Staff, George White of The Sentinel. "Clubs Changing in the Aftermath of Shoal Creek". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Demas, Lane (August 9, 2017). Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf. UNC Press Books. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4696-3423-4.
- ^ 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.
