Portland, OR

Portland Golf Club

Nine Portland businessmen founded the Club in 1914, purchasing land southwest of the city. The first clubhouse stood beside the sixth green; after it burned, its replacement at the present clubhouse site also succumbed to fire.

Course: 18 holes · par 72
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The course

Portland Golf Club18 holes · par 72

Course design

Robert Trent JonesRenovation · Portland Golf Club · 1950

A Portland retreat and two clubhouse fires

The main structure completed in 1928 became the continuing heart of the property. In 1947, the Club hosted the first Ryder Cup after World War II, linking its local institutional history to the return of international team golf.

Portland hosted the 2015 U.S. Women’s Amateur, where Hannah O’Sullivan defeated Sierra Brooks 3 and 2 in the final.

Championships

Results and dates 13 editions

Portland Classic

1972
Portland Ladies Classic
Kathy Whitworth
September 29–October 1, 1972
1973
Portland Ladies Open
Kathy Whitworth
September 21–23, 1973
1975
Portland Ladies Classic
Jo Ann Washam
September 19–21, 1975
1976
Donna Caponi
September 17–19, 1976
1979
Portland-Ping Team Championship
Nancy Lopez / Jo Ann Washam
September 14–16, 1979

BMW Championship

1955
Western Open
Cary Middlecoff
June 23–26, 1955

PGA Championship

1946
Ben Hogan
August 19–25, 1946

Ryder Cup

1947
United States (Ryder Cup)

U.S. Senior Amateur

1999
Bill Ploeger
October 2–7, 1999

U.S. Senior Open

1982
Miller Barber

U.S. Senior Women's Amateur

2026
U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur
Xiaolong “Sherry” Zhong
September 26–October 1, 2026

U.S. Women's Amateur

2015
Hannah O’Sullivan
August 10–16, 2015

Western Amateur

1931
Donald K. Moe
July 13–18, 1931

In the archive

Clubs in OR

Sources and editorial notes17 references

Sources for this story

History Timeline Portland Golf Club
Main historical narrative and course descriptions; stale future-event language excluded.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Passages:Introduction A Portland retreat and two clubhouse fires, paragraph 2
2026 USGA Media Guide: U.S. Women’s Amateur United States Golf Association
Championship results: 2015 ; factual result only, disputed printed dates not used in prose.
Consulted 2026-09-23
Passages:A Portland retreat and two clubhouse fires, paragraph 3

Record sources15 references

Club mark source
Robert Trent Jones Society: Geographical Course Register
USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur final recap The final recap confirms the completed championship, its ordinal, host and winner. Exact championship dates are printed in the USGA championship header and corroborated by the saved fast-facts sheet: 2026-09-26 through 2026-10-01. The final recap names Xiaolong “Sherry” Zhong as champion over Amandine Vincent. Its Notable section explicitly identifies the final match’s winning score as 1 up; do not confuse this with the separately reported quarterfinal or semifinal scores.
2026 USGA Media Guide: U.S. Women’s Amateur The championship was held from 2015-08-10 through 2015-08-16 at Portland Golf Club. Mass Golf’s 2015 event archive records August 10–16; the USGA’s 2026 record book prints August 4–10. The dates here follow the contemporary Mass Golf listing: www.massgolf.org.
USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 8 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1999 (Oct. 2-7) Bill Ploeger d. Gary Menzel , 3 and 2; Portland (Ore.) G.C.; Medalist — 143, Joel Hirsch; Entries: 2,026 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.
PGA Tour: U.S. Senior Open verified results PGA Tour 2015 Champions media guide, PDF page 213 / printed page 212, year row establishes a completed championship and named winner. No event dates are inferred from advertised schedules. Host-club evidence: www.usga.org.
USGA: Host States and Clubs, 1895 to Present (as of October 13, 2025) Gold club identity reviewed against the source host entry Portland G.C., Portland (3), 1982 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
LPGA: official tournament chronology 1970–1979 (archived publisher original) Official 1979 chronology, PDF page9: actual dates, named institution and winner. Title: Portland-Ping Team Championship.
Portland Golf Club: official championship history The Club official history lists1975 at Portland Golf Club. Kerry Eggers independently recalls covering the1975 event there for The Oregon Journal and identifies Washam and her$5,700prize. The LPGA chronology instead prints Columbia-Edgewater. Preserve that discrepancy rather than silently treating the two institutions as interchangeable. Corroborating eyewitness: dragonfly-cuboid-rem4.squarespace.com
Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 118, 1955 chapter, plus summary page 5. Competition dates come from the actual year chapter; institutional venue and champion are independently cross-checked against the official publisher chronology.
Ryder Cup official history The official Ryder Cup history data records the 1947 course and result.
PGA TOUR 2011 Official Guide, Ryder Cup historical table (printed 4-9; PDF page 568) The official historical results table identifies Portland Golf Club as the 1947 Ryder Cup venue. This record verifies the club and year only; it does not infer a physical course, composite routing, unchanged layout, tees, or all-round use.
2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 28th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text. The champion-only winner field is intentionally separate from the official match-play result: 6&4 over Ed Oliver.
PGA Championship host record The 1946 PGA record names Portland Golf Club. The host Club is verified; the exact course and routing used for this edition have not been confirmed.
Western Golf Association: 2025 Western Amateur Records and Statistics Guide WGA completed championship result; detailed guide PDF page135 and venue/summary table.