That may sound contradictory, but in golf course terms, it takes effort to avoid change. Back to reckon with the quirky, capricious terrain and antique features of a course that has changed somewhat in recent time, but only with the goal of staying much the same as it’s been for nearly 130 years prior.
ANTIQUE BOOKENDS PRO
It's been a quiet couple of decades since that putt heard round the world, but for the first time this century, the pro golf world is back in Brookline.
Many years later in September of 1999, just months shy of a new millennia and the Y2K madness it brought with it's arrival, Justin Leonard sunk a seagoer of a putt up the tiered 17 th green, setting off an earthquake through the golf world and paving the way for one of the most improbable comebacks in Ryder Cup history. Unlikely would become a common adjective in the club's footnotes, it seemed. Open victory over titans Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. One of the five clubs that co-founded the United States Golf Association in 1894, it's been there since the very beginning: 1913, when Francis Ouimet captivated his home city and country’s sports fans with a thrilling underdog U.S. In the annals of golf history, one could argue that The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., holds a unique place at the bookends of 20 th century American golf.
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