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The clubhouse and 18th green at Ganton Golf Club
Ganton Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course in Ganton, North Yorkshire, England.
Founded in 1891, the course was initially designed by Tom Chisholm and Robert Bird, but modifications to the course have been made since by a number of people including James Braid, Alister MacKenzie, Harry Colt, John Henry Taylor, and Harry Vardon.
Competitions at Ganton
The course has been the venue for a number of amateur and professional competitions including the 1949 Ryder Cup, the 2000 Curtis Cup, the 2003 Walker Cup and The Amateur Championship (1964, 1977, 1991) and the English Amateur (1933, 1947, 1955, 1968, 1976), (2016 in conjunction with South Cliff Golf Club, Scarborough). In 2017 it hosted the 128th Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
References
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- Moortown Golf Club, Leeds (1929)
- Scioto Country Club, Upper Arlington, Ohio (1931)
- Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club, Southport (1933, 1937)
- Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, New Jersey (1935)
- Portland Golf Club, Raleigh Hills, Oregon (1947)
- Ganton Golf Club, Ganton, East Riding of Yorkshire (1949)
- Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina (1951)
- Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey (1953)
- Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California (1955)
- Lindrick Golf Club, near Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire (1957)
- Eldorado Country Club, Indian Wells, California (1959)
- Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire (1961, 1977)
- East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia (1963)
- Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside (1965, 1969)
- Champions Golf Club, Houston, Texas (1967)
- Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri (1971)
- Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian (1973)
- Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (1975)
- The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1979)
- Walton Heath Golf Club, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey (1981)
- PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (1983)
- The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire (1985, 1989, 1993, 2002)
- Muirfield Village, Dublin, Ohio (1987)
- Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, South Carolina (1991)
- Oak Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York (1995)
- Real Club Valderrama, Sotogrande, Andalusia (1997)
- The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts (1999)
- Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2004)
- K Club, Straffan, County Kildare (2006)
- Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky (2008)
- Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales (2010)
- Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois (2012)
- Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross (2014)
- Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota (2016, 2029)
- Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France (2018)
- Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin (2021)
- Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Guidonia, Rome (2023)
- Bethpage Black Course, Farmingdale, New York (2025)
- Adare Manor, Adare, County Limerick (2027)
- Olympic Club, San Francisco, California (2033)
- Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland (2037)
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