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Edgewood Country Club is a private golf, social, and tennis club located in Churchill, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Country Club was founded in 1898 in Edgewood, Pennsylvania and then moved in 1921 to Churchill where Donald Ross designed its new golf course while also working on the design of the well-known Pinehurst No. 2.〔(Edgewood Country Club Summary )〕 ==Golf== Edgewood Country Club was started as a golf and social club only minutes away from the bustling Pittsburgh steel mills. The golf course was designed Donald Ross to promote fair and enjoyable play with a comfortable walking experience if chosen. The importance of a golf course providing enjoyment while still delivering a challenge may be summarized in one of Ross's famous statements, "Golf should be a pleasure, not a penance."〔(Edgewood C.C. Golf )〕 The course has been a longtime member of the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association (WPGA) and has hosted several WPGA tournaments. The 18 hole course belongs to the United States Golf Association and provides golf handicap for all members using latest computer technologies to make the process fast and easy. The golf course is designed, like many Western Pennsylvania courses, over rolling terrain, but Donald Ross designed the holes without sidehill lies like so many other Western Pennsylvania courses. Edgewood's greens are well known, like many of Ross's courses, for their fast speed. The greens are regularly found to run about 12 feet on the stimpmeter. The golf course does not rely on any creeks, lakes or other water bodies, preferring to use very difficult greens and dangerous sand bunkers to challenge the area's best golfers. The golf facility at Edgewood not only contains a well maintained 18 hole course, but also a variety of practice facilities. Edgewood has a full size grass driving range where members and guests may hit balls without paying for each bucket like most courses, two putting greens, a chipping and putting green, and a full short game area complete with a practice fairway and sand bunkers. Edgewood provides many competitions for members and guests throughout the year such as member-guests, Stag events, holiday events, and many others including the club championship. In addition to competition within the club, Edgewood fields both junior and senior interclub teams. The Country Club provides a junior golf club program where children and other relatives of members may take a group lesson and then play a number of holes based on their age to help introduce them to the game of golf. The Club also provides junior memberships which gives relatives of members extra playing privileges as well as access to all of the club's practice facilities. For more information, see here: http://www.eccgolf.com/ A full pro-shop is also located on site selling all of the top equipment as well as many Edgewood logo items. The current head professional at Edgewood is Peter Micklewright, Jr. who is in charge of giving golf lessons and running the golf shop. The current layout is played as Donald Ross designed it. The change back to the Donald Ross layout was made during the club's 100th anniversary. The course currently has blue championship tees, white men's/amateur women tees, red women's tees, and golden senior's tees. The yardage of holes as well as par: Edgewood has been a longtime member of the WPGA, and due to its local and national prestige has been awarded many of the WPGA's annual championships. The following are champions of WPGA events contested at Edgewood Country Club: WPGA Championships: *West Penn Open〔(Past Champions of West Penn Open )〕 * *1954 - Tom Blaskovich * *1959 - Frank Kiraly * *2001 - Marshall Maraccini *West Penn Amateur〔(Past Champions of West Penn Amateur )〕 * *1939 - Jack C. Benson * *1946 - Frank Souchak * *1965 - Harry Toscano * *1969 - James Simons * *1976 - Tom McGinnis, Jr. *Tournament of Club Champions 〔(Past Champions of Tournament of Club Champions )〕 * *1995 - Sherman Hostetter *West Penn Senior Amateur Championship〔(Past Champions of West Penn Senior Amateur )〕 * *1998 - Phil Saylor *West Penn Women's Amateur〔(Past Champions of West Penn Women's Amateur )〕 * *2005 - Katie Trotter *West Penn Junior Amateur Championship〔(Past Champions of West Penn Junior )〕 * *1937 - Kenneth J. Stear * *1950 - Jim McCarter 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edgewood Country Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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