Pomonok Country Club

Pomonok Country Club was a country club in the northeastern United States, located in what is now the Pomonok neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. The golf course was located between Kissena Boulevard and 164th Street, just to the south of Horace Harding Boulevard (now the Long Island Expressway) and to the east of Queens College.[2]

Pomonok Country Club
Club information
Coordinates40.734°N 73.810°W / 40.734; -73.810
LocationPomonok, Queens,
New York, U.S.
Elevation80 feet (25 m)
Established1886, 1921 (closed 1949)
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Tournaments hostedPGA Championship (1939)
Designed byDevereux Emmet
Par72
Length6,354 yards (5,810 m)[1]

The club was established in 1886 by members of the Flushing Athletic Club in southern Flushing and moved to the Kissena Boulevard location in 1921. Devereux Emmet designed the golf course; the members disbanded and sold the course in 1949.[3] Part of the site today contains the Electchester cooperative housing development, Pomonok public housing, and an extension of Parsons Boulevard.[2][4]

The golf course hosted the PGA Championship in 1939, in which Henry Picard defeated Byron Nelson in the final in 37 holes.[5] The match play event was held in July during the New York World's Fair, which was located at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, approximately two miles (3 km) northwest.

The former course of Fresh Meadow Country Club was a few miles east (40.733°N 73.78°W / 40.733; -73.78); it hosted the PGA Championship in 1930 and the U.S. Open in 1932. That course was sold in 1946 for development and the club moved to Lake Success, five miles (8 km) northeast.

References
  1. "Four aces smash par to lead meet as P.G.A. split widens to chasm". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. July 11, 1939. p. 13.
  2. "Pomonok". Forgotten NY. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  3. "San Antonio golfers working on plan to save Pecan Valley, site of 1968 PGA Championship". Golf.com. January 10, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  4. Quirin, William L. (2002). America's Linksland: A Century of Long Island Golf. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press. p. 199. ISBN 1-58536-087-2.
  5. Boni, Bill (July 16, 1939). "Picard defeats Nelson on 37th for PGA title". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. p. 1-B.


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