Golf Events
MGC has a great golfing tradition. It developed in part due to the quality design of the golf course. By the mid-1920s MGC was growing in local and national recognition. In 1940 after Sam Snead played an exhibition match at MGC he said that he "hoped that (MGC) would some day host a U.S. Open". The most prestigious amateur event was the Golden Anniversary (50th) U.S. Amateur in 1950. As result of holding the 1959 PGA Championship at MGC the club is in elite company as one of only 120 golf clubs in the world to have hosted a Grand Slam event (British Open, U.S. Open, Masters & PGA) since 1860.
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