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Rochester, NY
Oak Hill Country Club
Oak Hill began beside the Genesee River in 1901, with nine holes and modest farm buildings. Its move to Pittsford in the 1920s transformed both the scale of the property and the Club’s golf.
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Courses
Course design
Oak Hill Country Club history
Donald Ross designed two courses at the new site. Construction required drainage, bridges and extensive earthmoving; the courses were seeded in 1924, allowed a growing season in 1925, and opened for play in 1926.
Championships
Results and dates 11 editions
PGA Championship
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Jack Nicklaus
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Shaun Micheel
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Jason Dufner
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Brooks Koepka
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U.S. Open
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Cary Middlecoff
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Lee Trevino
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Curtis Strange
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U.S. Amateur
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Charles R. Coe
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Hank Kuehne
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Ryder Cup
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Europe (Ryder Cup)
U.S. Senior Open
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Miller Barber
In the archive
Sources and editorial notes13 references
Sources for this story
- Oak Hill | Golf History Oak Hill Country Club
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources12 references
- Oak Hill Country Club, East Course
- Oak Hill Country Club
- Oak Hill Country Club
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 105th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- PGA Championship host record The 2023 PGA record names Oak Hill Country Club, East Course. The canonical Club name and state match the dated PGA host record. The dated PGA venue explicitly identifies the East Course layout. Host and competition dates: www.pgachampionship.com
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1998 result row. Hank Kuehne d. Tom McKnight, 2 and 1. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- Ryder Cup official history The official Ryder Cup history data records the 1995 course and result.
- PGA TOUR 2011 Official Guide, Ryder Cup historical table (printed 4-9; PDF page 568) The official historical results table identifies Oak Hill Country Club as the 1995 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 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1989 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 Dated USGA host wording Oak Hill C.C. (East Course), Rochester, N.Y. is explicitly reconciled to Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, NY. The dated East Course qualifier resolves to the existing Oak Hill - East Course owned by this Club. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
- 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 Oak Hill C.C., Rochester (6), 1984 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.