Edison, NJ
Plainfield Country Club
Plainfield began in 1890 as the Hillside Tennis Club. Its later development in Edison brought golf together with a continuing racquets tradition, on a property whose clubhouse looks toward New York City and the Watchung Mountains.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1921
- Original architect
- Donald Ross
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
From tennis club to championship host
The Club hosted The Barclays in 2011 and 2015, won respectively by Dustin Johnson and Jason Day. Those professional championships form a later chapter in a sporting history that began before the Club had a golf course.
Championships
- 2021 Met Amateur ChampionshipPlainfield Country Club
- 2015 The BarclaysPlainfield Country Club
- 2011 The BarclaysPlainfield Country Club
- 1988 Met Amateur ChampionshipPlainfield Country Club
View all 10 past editions
Results and dates 10 editions
Metropolitan Amateur Championship
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Met Amateur Championship
T.S. Tailer Jr.
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Met Amateur Championship
Robert W. Kuntz
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Met Amateur Championship
John C. Baldwin
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Met Amateur Championship
Bill Britton
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Met Amateur Championship
Jim McGovern
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Met Amateur Championship
Garett Engel
FedEx St. Jude Championship
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The Barclays
Dustin Johnson
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The Barclays
Jason Day
U.S. Amateur
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John Cook
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U.S. Women's Open
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Laura Davies
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes9 references
Sources for this story
- About Us Plainfield Country Club
Our Rich Heritage; restoration and Barclays
Consulted 2026-09-17 - About West Nine Plainfield Country Club
Bendelow course and Ross replacement; West Nine separation
Consulted 2026-09-17
Record sources
- golfcoursegurus
- Hanse Golf Course Design restoration projects
- Metropolitan Golf Association: Met Amateur Championship history The organizer's official history register explicitly records 2021: champion Garett Engel, runner-up Trevor Randolph, final 3 & 2, site Plainfield. The calendar year is established; exact competitive dates and edition number remain unknown. Host attribution is to the institution only; no current routing is inherited.
- PGA TOUR 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship Media Guide PDF page 9 records this completed tournament. Historical competition dates are not inferred from event-week headings.
- USGA Women's Open Champions and Championship Results The official champions table records the 1987 winner and site. Recorded site text follows that table; no canonical Club or Course identity is inferred. Explicit date span: www.usga.org
- Official Club history and USGA host and result records USGA host register places the 1987 Women's Open at Plainfield C.C., Edison, matching the canonical Club despite the champions table using Plainfield as locality.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1978 result row. John Cook d. Scott Hoch, 5 and 4. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.