Martindale Country Club

Martindale Country Club traces its start to 1920, when the Martindale Holding Company bought land beside the Androscoggin River in Auburn, and the club opened for play in 1921. Brothers Alex and Fred Chisholm routed the original nine through woods and dairy pasture; Fred became the first superintendent, while Alex served as golf professional at Portland Country Club. The club was reorganized as Martindale Country Club, Inc. in 1945, and members later pushed to complete a second nine designed by Philip Wogan, which opened in the mid-1960s and runs along the river. By the 1930s Martindale had earned the nickname Mother of Champions for its strong junior program, and it went on to produce a long line of state amateur and women's champions. A new clubhouse opened in 1993. Martindale has hosted the Maine Amateur five times between 1970 and 2009, along with several Maine Women's Amateurs, and it passed to private ownership in 2009 after members voted to sell.