Blue Mound Golf & Country Club is a country club located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA. The golf course hosted the PGA Championship in 1933, won by Gene Sarazen, 5 and 4, over Willie Goggin. It was Sarazen's third and final PGA Championship. He earned $1,000 for the victory.
The course also hosted the 1940 Women's Western Open where Babe Zaharias defeated Mrs. Russell Mann by a score of 5 and 4.
Blue Mound hosted the 2010 Western Junior, won by Patrick Rogers. It was also the alternating course for the first two rounds of the 2011 U.S. Amateur, along with Erin Hills, site of the 2017 U.S. Open.
Famous quotes containing the words blue, mound, golf, country and/or club:
“The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
—Paul Gallico (1897–1976)
“The country is holy: O bide in that country kind,
Know the green good,
Under the prayer wheeling moon in the rosy wood
Be shielded by chant and flower and gay may you
Lie in grace.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”
—Groucho Marx (1895–1977)