Designed by Charles Hugh Alison, Fresh Meadow is a good golf course. With the clubhouse positioned at the highest point on the course, it is routed around a couple of hills producing some very good holes. The course has excellent placement and number of bunkers.
The club’s new course opened in 1923 and was designed by A. W. Tillinghast. Fresh Meadow hosted the PGA Championship in 1930, won by Tommy Armour, and the 1932 U.S. Open, won by its former club pro Gene Sarazen.
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Fresh Meadow Country Club was established in the early 1920s at Flushing in the New York borough of Queens. The club’s new course opened in 1923 and was designed by A. W. Tillinghast. Fresh Meadow hosted the PGA Championship in 1930, won by Tommy Armour, and the 1932 U.S. Open, won by its former club pro Gene Sarazen.
The front nine is a little bland, with a good start to the first four holes and then a little repetitive with the exception of the eighth hole. 10 – par 5 of 575/550 playing downhill to a double dogleg where the land tilts to the left and some good changes in the terrain.
Today, FMCC is a beautiful course, which occupies a wonderful piece of land. However, it is a prime example of the negative influence of Augusta National on golf course conditioning in the US. The 18 holes are almost uniformly green, the fairways and greens being overwatered.
Designed by Charles Hugh Alison, Fresh Meadow is a good golf course. With the clubhouse positioned at the highest point on the course, it is routed around a couple of hills producing some very good holes. The course has excellent placement and number of bunkers. It is a course that one could play every day and not tire of it. It does not have quite the challenge of some other courses due to somewhat generous fairways, yet it has a high rating due to the difficulty of the greens which are excellently sloped.
According to club history, “Sarazen resigned his position at Fresh Meadow and took a similar position at nearby Lakeville. Sarazen believed the ‘home pro jinx’ had cost him the 1930 PGA, and he was taking no chances.”. In 1946 the club sold its Queens property for housing development and purchased Lakeville Golf & Country Club, its present course.
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