Lost Championship Course

Englewood Golf Club was an early New Jersey championship venue and one of the few U. S. Open sites to have disappeared completely. Located across Englewood and Leonia, it hosted the 1906 U. S. Amateur and the 1909 U. S. Open before urban development and Interstate 95 undermined the property.

Harry Stark laid out nine holes in 1896 and the course expanded to 18 around 1900. Donald Ross remodelled bunkers and green contours in 1916. Interstate construction divided the property in 1963, although an 18-hole sequence survived for a time. Financial pressure finally closed the club in October 1977.

For the 1909 U. S. Open the course measured 6,205 yards at par 71. Hills, a descending landscape and a brook gave the layout genuine movement. Ross’s later work added more sophisticated hazards, but the venue became short compared with the major courses built during the 1920s.

Housing and condominiums now occupy the site, and the clubhouse was destroyed after closure. This Atlas record must be non-bookable and visible only as a lost championship venue.

U.S. Amateur; U.S. Open; Metropolitan Open — 1906; 1909; 1911 U.S. Open 1909 : George Sargent 290; David Hunter 68 et Tom McNamara 69, premiers scores sous 70 dans l’épreuve.