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Description

Oak Hill Country Club
is a country club located in
Pittsford, New York
, a suburb southeast of
Rochester
. Founded in 1901 and best known for its golf course, the club has hosted multiple major championships.
The club has a rich history of
golf
, starting out in 1901 as only 9 holes on 85 acres (0.34 km
2
) on the banks of the
Genesee River
in Rochester. The clubhouse was no more than a converted farm house. However, at the time golf was a relatively new sport in America, and as popularity of the sport grew, so did the country club. By 1921 Oak Hill had doubled in size and had a new clubhouse, so when the
University of Rochester
proposed a land swap in 1921 it was a tough decision for members. However, the country club decided to take the university up on their offer, and moved the club to a 355-acre (1.44 km
2
) plot in nearby Pittsford. This decision ended up benefiting Oak Hill, the University of Rochester, and the City of Rochester. Now with triple the land of the old country club, Oak Hill had room for two 18-hole courses. Designed by
Donald Ross
, they became the East Course and the West Course. Local physician and civic personality
John Ralston Williams
cultivated oak trees and planted tens of thousands of them among the greens on what once was a farmed-out field.
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The East Course - which hosts the major tournaments - is built around the east branch of Allen Creek, which acts as a lateral hazard on 9 of its 18 holes. It has had several changes made over the years, first by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in the early 1960s and later (and more recently for the 1989 Open and 2003 PGA) by Tom Fazio and his design group. In 1941 the
Times-Union
, a local paper at the time posted a 00 purse which attracted the greatest golfers in the world, including names such as
Sam Snead
,
Walter Hagen
, and
Ben Hogan
. This tournament, won by Snead, put Oak Hill on the national golf map. Several prestigious tournaments would be held at Oak Hill over the next 62 years, including six
men's major championships
.
In 2017, the East Course was ranked 20th in
Golf Digest
'
s list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
Major tournaments hosted
[
edit
]
All played on the East Course.
Year
Tournament
Winner
Winning Score
Margin of
Victory
Runner(s) Up
Winner's
share (
$
)
1949
U.S. Amateur
Charles Coe
11 & 10
Rufus King
n/a
1956
U.S. Open
Cary Middlecoff
281 (+1)
1 stroke
Ben Hogan
Julius Boros
6,000
1968
U.S. Open
(2)
Lee Trevino
275 (-5)
4 strokes
Jack Nicklaus
30,000
1980
PGA Championship
Jack Nicklaus
274 (-6)
7 strokes
Andy Bean
60,000
1984
U.S. Senior Open
Miller Barber
286 (-2)
2 strokes
Arnold Palmer
36,448
1989
U.S. Open
(3)
Curtis Strange
278 (-2)
1 stroke
Chip Beck
Mark McCumber
Ian Woosnam
200,000
1995
Ryder Cup
Europe
14
1/2
to 13
1/2
United States
n/a
1998
U.S. Amateur
(2)
Hank Kuehne
2 & 1
Tom McKnight
n/a
2003
PGA Championship
(2)
Shaun Micheel
276 (-4)
2 strokes
Chad Campbell
1,080,000
2008
Senior PGA Championship
Jay Haas
287 (+7)
1 stroke
Bernhard Langer
360,000
2013
PGA Championship
(3)
Jason Dufner
270 (-10)
2 strokes
Jim Furyk
1,445,000
2019
Senior PGA Championship (2)
TBD
TBD
2023
PGA Championship
(4)
TBD
TBD