Inwood Country Club

Inwood Country Club sits on a piece of Inwood, New York Long Island land at the eastern edge of Queens, on land that has been a country club continuously since 1901. The course's place in American golf history is permanently tied to the 1923 U.S. Open, when Bobby Jones won his first major championship at Inwood in a Monday playoff over Bobby Cruickshank. Jones's victory at age twenty-one at Inwood marked the beginning of his major-championship career, and the club's institutional identity has been organized around that historical anchor for a century. Inwood also hosted the 1921 PGA Championship (Walter Hagen).

The course plays around 6,900 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's age and the institutional history give Inwood significance independent of contemporary major-rotation evaluation. The eighteenth hole is a 425-yard par-4 with a green set against the clubhouse — the closing hole where Jones secured his first major in 1923. The fairways play firm given the Long Island subsoil and the property's natural drainage.

Inwood is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Long Island and New York metro business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's early-1900s founding. The Bobby Jones 1923 U.S. Open connection is the institutional centerpiece, and the club has invested in continuous restoration to preserve the routing's architectural vocabulary from that era.

Long Island coastal climate gives Inwood a playing season of April through November, with the firmest conditions in September and October. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The mature tree canopy through the property gives the routing a parkland character that has been preserved through generations, and the autumn color through October is part of the seasonal photographic signature.