Inverness Club
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| Inverness Club | |
| Club Information | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Toledo, Ohio |
| Established: | 1903 |
| Type: | Private |
| Total holes: | 18 |
| Website: | Inverness Club |
| Designed by: | Donald Ross |
| Par: | 71 |
| Length: | 7,255 |
| Course Rating: | 75.9 |
Inverness Club is a country club in Toledo, Ohio that is famous for its golf course (and also has an Olympic-sized pool and several tennis courts). The golf course is so well known since it has hosted four U.S. Opens, a U.S. Amateur Championship, a U.S. Senior Open, and two PGA Championships. It also hosted the Inverness Invitational Four-Ball from 1935 to 1953.
Inverness Club was founded in 1903, when many of Toledo's wealthiest citizens purchased a parcel of land and built a nine-hole golf course. The course was eventually expanded to eighteen holes. In 1916, the club hired Donald Ross to construct a championship-caliber golf course, which was finished by the end of 1918. In his unpublished book, Golf Has Never Failed Me, Ross discussed Inverness's design, one of only seven of his hundreds of courses to be given a discussion.
The course has been refurbished three times: once after the 1920 Open by A.W. Tillinghast and Dick Wilson; then in 1978 by George and Tom Fazio; and finally in 1999 by Arthur Hills.
[edit] Tournaments
Winners of major tournaments held at Inverness Club include:
- U.S. Open
- 1920 - Ted Ray
- 1931 - Billy Burke
- 1957 - Dick Mayer
- 1979 - Hale Irwin
- U.S. Amateur Championship
- 1973 - Craig Stadler
- PGA Championship
- 1986 - Bob Tway
- 1993 - Paul Azinger
- U.S. Senior Open
- 2003 - Bruce Lietzke
