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Juno Beach, FL
Seminole Golf Club
Seminole grew from Edward Francis Hutton’s 1929 development beside the Atlantic into a gathering place for accomplished golfers. Long before televised competition arrived, its winter events and visiting professionals had made the Club a recurring meeting ground within the game.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1929
- Original architect
- Donald Ross
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
A winter gathering reaches a wider audience
The property comprised 140 acres formerly owned by Harry Seymour Kelsey. Donald Ross’s course and Marion Sims Wyeth’s clubhouse were built in 1929. Together they established the physical home of an institution whose later building additions would enlarge the original clubhouse footprint.
Ben Hogan first came for the 1937 Seminole Amateur-Professional and returned for the event in 1940. His friendships with members and professionals, including Claude Harmon and Henry Picard, became part of a long association with the Club. The gathering continued through 1961 and was revived in 2004.
A different audience encountered Seminole on May 17, 2020. The televised TaylorMade Driving Relief match paired Rory McIlroy with Dustin Johnson against Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff. Its four-ball skins format supported pandemic relief, bringing the course onto television for the first time.
The Walker Cup followed on May 8-9, 2021. This brought international amateur team competition to the same course that had drawn prominent professionals for decades, adding a distinct chapter to Seminole’s history of gathering players across the boundaries of the professional and amateur games.
Championships
Results and dates 1 edition
Walker Cup
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United States (Walker Cup)
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes8 references
Sources for this story
- 2021 Walker Cup Tournament Fact Sheet Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
PDF page 1: architect, renovation years, tournament setup, sand and wind.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - TaylorMade Driving Relief: 2020 Fact Sheet PGA TOUR
PDF pages 1-3: May 17 event, pairings, four-ball skins format and charitable beneficiaries.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - Seminole Golf Club asset preservation presentation Town of Juno Beach public meeting record
PDF page 4, Clubhouse History: Hutton, Kelsey land, 1929 Ross course and Wyeth clubhouse.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - How Ben Hogan put Seminole on the map Jim McCabe / PGA TOUR
1937 Amateur-Professional debut; 1940 return; event discontinuation in 1961 and revival in 2004; Harmon and Picard.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - Five takeaways from the TaylorMade Driving Relief match PGA TOUR
Seminole makes a splashy debut: first televised competition at Seminole on May 17, 2020.
Consulted 2026-09-15
Record sources
- Club mark source
- R&A official Walker Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 2021 (May 8-9): USA 14, GB&I 12; Seminole G.C., Juno Beach, Fla. ( Final Results ) Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- USGA: 2026 Walker Cup record book, page 13 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26WalkerCup.pdf; SHA-256 3e6e866f4a64e0416bdf539d1e566263873852dc8bbaffd8ce3d2fa4f5c614df. The official results row names Seminole Golf Club, Juno Beach, May 8-9, USA 14 to GB&I 12. Bind the existing named course identity, preserving the existing team results. Do not promote listed reserve players or captains to new result records.