Brookline, MA

The Country Club

Founded in 1882, The Country Club began with interests extending beyond golf, including a horse-racing track. Members laid out six golf holes in 1893. The Club became one of the five founding members of the United States Golf Association the following year.

Courses: 2 courses
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Courses

Main Course18 holes

Primrose9 holes

Earlier routings and other records (1)

Open CourseRecorded 18 holes · Recorded par 71

Course design

Gil HanseRestoration · Open Course · 2019

Rees JonesRenovation · Open Course

William FlynnOriginal design · Primrose

Willie CampbellCompletion · Main Course · 1894–1899 · Expansion from six holes to nine and eighteen

Golf grew into the grounds

Its courses developed through successive additions. Clyde and Squirrel form the Main Course; Primrose is the third nine. Championship golf draws on that larger property through the Open Course, a composite routing assembled from the existing holes.

The championship record reaches beyond the U.S. Open. Genevieve Hecker won the 1902 U.S. Women’s Amateur here. In 1913, Francis Ouimet defeated Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in an eighteen-hole U.S. Open playoff, giving the young amateur a place in the Club’s history.

Championships

Results and dates 18 editions

U.S. Amateur

1910
William C. Fownes Jr.
September 12–17, 1910
1922
Jess W. Sweetser
September 2–9, 1922
1934
Lawson Little
September 10–15, 1934
1957
Hillman Robbins Jr.
September 9–14, 1957
1982
Jay Sigel
August 31–September 5, 1982
2013
Matt Fitzpatrick
August 12–18, 2013

U.S. Open

1913
Francis Ouimet
September 18–20, 1913
1963
Julius Boros
June 20–23, 1963
1988
Curtis Strange
June 16–20, 1988
2022
Matt Fitzpatrick
June 16–19, 2022

U.S. Women's Amateur

1902
U.S. Women’s Amateur
Genevieve Hecker
September 30–October 4, 1902
1941
U.S. Women’s Amateur
Elizabeth Hicks
September 8–13, 1941
1995
U.S. Women’s Amateur
Kelli Kuehne
August 7–12, 1995

Walker Cup

1932
United States (Walker Cup)
September 1–2, 1932
1973
United States (Walker Cup)
August 24–25, 1973

Ryder Cup

1999
United States (Ryder Cup)

U.S. Girls' Junior

1953
Mildred Meyerson
August 17–21, 1953

U.S. Junior Amateur

1968
Eddie Pearce
July 30–August 3, 1968

In the archive

Clubs in MA

Sources and editorial notes15 references

Sources for this story

Club History The Country Club
Origins, Main and Primrose nines, 2022 routing.
Consulted 2026-09-15
Passages:Introduction Golf grew into the grounds, paragraph 2
2022 U.S. Open: Notebook and Story Ideas United States Golf Association
Pages 6–7: course development and championship results.
Consulted 2026-09-15
Passages:Golf grew into the grounds, paragraph 3

Record sources13 references

2022 U.S. Open Fact Sheet PDF page1, Architects: composite incorporating Primrose holes. PDF page3, About The Country Club: twenty-seven physical holes and the original Clyde and Squirrel course.
Club mark source
Historic Lineup of Championships Coming to The Country Club
The Country Club
2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 2022 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 The Country Club (Open Course), Brookline, Mass. is explicitly reconciled to The Country Club in Brookline, MA. The dated Open Course qualifier resolves to the existing Open Course owned by this Club. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 11, 2013 result row. Matthew Fitzpatrick def. Oliver Goss, 4 and 3. 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 1999 course and result.
PGA TOUR 2011 Official Guide, Ryder Cup historical table (printed 4-9; PDF page 568) The official historical results table identifies The Country Club as the 1999 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.
USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 9, 1995 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
R&A official Walker Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1973 (Aug. 24-25): USA 14, GB&I 10; The Country Club, Brookline, Mass. Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1968 result row. Completed championship and final result. Eddie Pearce defeated W.B. Harman Jr., 6 and 5. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.
USGA: 2026 U.S. Girls Junior record book, page 7 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26GirlsJunior.pdf; SHA-256 311526e6f45012af71b823745da59f40499591f1efae990bafaa12566d8bfc15. Exact result row: 1953 (Aug. 17-21) Mildred Meyerson d. Holly Jean Roth , 4 and 2; The Country Club, Brookline, Mass.; Medalists — 77, Berridge Long , Anne Richardson , Jacqueline P. Yates; Entries: 46 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result confirms The Country Club, Brookline, but does not identify its historical routing. The Main/Primrose/Open mapping remains held.