Beachwood, OH

Canterbury Golf Club

Canterbury opened for play on July 1, 1922. Herbert Strong was both its course architect and one of its founding members, connecting the institution’s beginnings directly to its design.¹

Location: Beachwood, OH
Course: 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1922
Original architect: Herbert Strong
Club website: Visit website

Canterbury Golf Club history

The Club’s professional staff also shaped its history. Jack H. Way combined an interest in architecture with an emphasis on conditioning; his successor Henry Picard became an influential teacher, and Ben Hogan later dedicated Power Golf to him.¹

The course

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CourseCanterbury Golf Club18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1922 · View course record

Championships

Results and dates 13 editions

Senior Players Championship

1983
Senior Tournament Players Championship
Miller Barber
1984
Senior Tournament Players Championship
Arnold Palmer
1985
Senior Tournament Players Championship
Arnold Palmer
1986
Senior Tournament Players Championship
Chi Chi Rodriguez

BMW Championship

1932
Western Open
Walter Hagen
June 30–July 2, 1932
1937
Western Open
Ralph Guldahl
September 17–20, 1937

U.S. Amateur

1964
William C. Campbell
September 14–19, 1964
1979
Mark O'Meara
August 28–September 2, 1979

U.S. Open

1940
Lawson Little
June 6–8, 1940
1946
Lloyd Mangrum
June 13–16, 1946

PGA Championship

1973
Jack Nicklaus
August 9–12, 1973

SBC Senior Open

1989
Ameritech Senior Open
Bruce Crampton

U.S. Senior Open

1996
Dave Stockton

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ArchitectHerbert StrongOriginal design · Canterbury Golf Club

ArchitectJack H. WayRedesign · Canterbury Golf Club · 1928

Clubs in OH

Sources and editorial notes11 references

Sources for this story

Canterbury | About Canterbury Golf Club
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21

Record sources10 references

Club mark source
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 Canterbury G.C., Cleveland (5), 1996 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PDF page 247, printed 5-29, 1989 entry: Ameritech Senior Open. Exact competitive-day boundaries remain unverified.
USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1979 result row. Mark O’Meara d. John Cook, 8 and 7. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 55th playing, champion, Canterbury Golf Course site, and its year-page date span. The Guide narrative’s full venue and the Winners register’s Canterbury G.C. control over the structured History record’s misspelled Cantebury value.
PGA Championship host record The 1973 PGA record names Canterbury Golf Course. The host Club is verified; the exact course and routing used for this edition have not been confirmed.
2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1946 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
USGA championship host record Official Club or regional association evidence corroborates the historical host identity for Canterbury Golf Club; the dated USGA venue wording and canonical locality are retained separately. The dated register identifies the Club. A continuing physical Course identity is not inferred from a single stored Course or an unqualified venue name. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 102, 1937 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.