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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.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1922
- Original architect
- Herbert Strong
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
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.
Championships
- 1996 U.S. Senior OpenCanterbury Golf Club
- 1989 Ameritech Senior OpenCanterbury Golf Club
- 1986 Senior Tournament Players ChampionshipCanterbury Golf Club
- 1985 Senior Tournament Players ChampionshipCanterbury Golf Club
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- 1984 Senior Tournament Players ChampionshipCanterbury Golf Club
- 1983 Senior Tournament Players ChampionshipCanterbury Golf Club
- 1979 U.S. AmateurCanterbury Golf Club
- 1973 PGA ChampionshipCanterbury Golf Club
- 1964 U.S. AmateurCanterbury Golf Club
- 1946 U.S. OpenCanterbury Golf Club
- 1940 U.S. OpenCanterbury Golf Club
- 1937 Western OpenCanterbury Golf Club
- 1932 Western OpenCanterbury Golf Club
Results and dates 13 editions
Senior Players Championship
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Senior Tournament Players Championship
Miller Barber
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Senior Tournament Players Championship
Arnold Palmer
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Senior Tournament Players Championship
Arnold Palmer
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Senior Tournament Players Championship
Chi Chi Rodriguez
BMW Championship
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Western Open
Walter Hagen
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Western Open
Ralph Guldahl
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U.S. Amateur
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William C. Campbell
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Mark O'Meara
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U.S. Open
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Lawson Little
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Lloyd Mangrum
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PGA Championship
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Jack Nicklaus
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SBC Senior Open
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Ameritech Senior Open
Bruce Crampton
U.S. Senior Open
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Dave Stockton
In the archive
Sources and editorial notes9 references
Sources for this story
- Canterbury | About Canterbury Golf Club
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- 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.
- 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.
- Canterbury Golf Club: A Century of Championship Golf The Club’s Strong/Way course history explicitly identifies the 1973 PGA Championship in its continuing course chronology.
- 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.
- 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.