The National Golf Club of Kansas City is an exclusive golf club located in the Kansas City, Missouri, USA suburb of Parkville. The golf course was designed by champion golfer Tom Watson, a native of Kansas City, Missouri. For two years (2003—04) the club hosted the Senior PGA's Bayer Advantage golf tournament.
Route 45, which passes the course is called the Tom Watson Parkway.
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—A. Edward Sullivan. Professor Quail (W.C. Fields)
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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