Phoenix Country Club
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Location | 2901 N 7th St Phoenix, Arizona 85014 |
| Established | October 25, 1900 |
| Type | Private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Tournaments hosted |
Phoenix Open (1932, 1933, 1935, 1939-1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974-1986) Western Open (1941, 1942) |
| Website | phoenixcountryclub.com |
| Designed by | Harry Collis, Tom Lehman, and John Fought |
| Par | 71 |
| Length |
6,764 yd (6,185 m) Longest hole is #7 - 571 yd (522 m) |
| Course rating | 72.4 |
| Slope rating | 129 |
| Course record | 61 - Johnny Miller (1970, 1975), Homero Blancas (1972), Ben Crenshaw (1979), Don Pooley (1986) |
6,764 yd (6,185 m)
Phoenix Country Club is a country club located in Phoenix, Arizona. The club was founded in 1900 and was moved to its current location in 1921. Golf Connoisseur Magazine rated Phoenix Country Club among top 100 Most Prestigious Private Clubs in America in 2006. The Club was chosen for the “ultimate mix of course, history, membership, tradition and class.” In 2009 and again in 2014, Phoenix Country Club was selected by its peers as a Platinum Club of America. The original golf course designed by Harry Collis was redesigned by Tom Lehman and John Fought in 2002.
Phoenix Country Club was officially incorporated on October 25, 1900 by a 12-member board including Webster Street, Chief Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court; and Dwight B. Heard, president of the Arizona Cotton Association. On October 29, 1919, the club voted to purchase a 160-acre tract of land at 7th Street and Thomas Road for the construction of a new club with and 18-hole golf course, tennis grounds, and a club house. This new property was to become the current location for the club. The land was purchased for $56,000.
Golf course designer Harry Collis, of the Flossmoor Country Club in Chicago was hired to design the layout for the new course in 1920. Los Angeles-based Landscape Architect Lloyd Wright designed the landscape gardening plans for the course. A former employee of the landscape architectural firm of Olmsted Brothers, Wright was the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and was noted for his landscape design of the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, and later became a production designer for Paramount Studios. To fund the construction of the new $200,000 club facilities, 52 homesites were incorporated into the plans for the new location and are known as "Country Club Estates."
The new club opened on October 27, 1921. A white tie ball celebrating the opening of the new club was held on October 28 and was restricted to membership. The following day, the golf course was inaugurated with a men's golf tournament alongside a bridge tournament for female members. The original clubhouse was of brick, painted white, with red tile roofing. It was of the Spanish Colonial style of architecture, the main portion of the structure facing a southwesterly direction. From this main portion were two wings, on at each end extending in northeasterly and southeasterly directions, respectively.
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