Scioto Country Club membership approves master plan and restoration

Scioto Country Club announced that its membership has approved a Golf Course Master Plan and Restoration of the golf course to be started in June 2021 and will be completed in May 2022. The project will be supervised by golf course architect Andrew Green who recently completed the renovation of Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Green is currently working on projects at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., and Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.

Photo provided by Greg Wolf, Scioto Country Club

The golf course at Scioto Country Club was originally designed and constructed in 1916 by Scottish-born Donald Ross. The Master Plan, designed by Green, is a sympathetic restoration intended to re-capture many of Ross’ original design elements while maintaining the course’s heritage as a major championship venue. The Master Plan also addresses Scioto’s aging infrastructure including irrigation, drainage and bunker construction as well as a restoration of the green complexes.

Photo provided by Greg Wolf, Scioto Country Club

Scioto Country Club has hosted six major championships and is one of five courses in the United States to have hosted five different major championships including …

• The 1926 U.S. Open won by Robert T. Jones Jr., where he became the first man in golf history to win both the U.S. and British Opens in the same year
• The 1931 Ryder Cup Matches, led to a U.S. victory by Walter Hagen
• The 1950 PGA Championship, won by Chandler Harper
• The1968 U.S. Amateur, where Bruce Fleisher was a winner just short of his 20th birthday
• The 1986 U.S. Senior Open, won by Dale Douglass
• The 2016 U.S. Senior Open, won by Gene Sauers

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In addition, Scioto Country Club is where Jack Nicklaus grew up and honed his game with legendary teaching professional Jack Grout. Scioto Country Club has long been thought of as the link between the two greatest players of the 20th century in Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus.

Photo provided by Greg Wolf, Scioto Country Club

Learn more about Scioto Country Club here.