Engineers Country Club is a country club located in Roslyn Harbor, New York. The club has an 18 hole championship golf course which hosted the PGA Championship in 1919 and the United States Amateur Championship in 1920. The competitions were won by Jim Barnes and Chick Evans, respectively. Herbert Strong was the architect of the original golf course and Devereux Emmet remodeled it in 1921.
The golf course was constructed on the former grounds of the W. R. Willet Manor estate. The property was purchased by the Engineers Country Club in March 1917, which had been formed on January 21, 1917 by the Engineers Club of Manhattan. Engineers plays 6,800 yards (6,218 m) yards from the black tees, 6,625 yards (6,058 m) from the blue tees, 6,260 yards (5,724 m) from the white, 5,587 yards (5,109 m) from the gold tees and 5,176 yards (4,733 m) from the red tees. Occasionally the old 14th hole is open for play. This short 90-yard (82 m) par three was dubbed the "Two or Twenty Hole" as back in 1919 by Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen, who both took double figures.
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