Mosholu Golf Course

Mosholu Golf Course opened in 1914 in the southeast corner of the Bronx's Van Cortlandt Park, one of the first public golf courses in the United States. According to the city Parks Department, T. McClure Peters built the original nine holes north of Van Cortlandt Lake for $624.80, as a venture of the founders of the Mosholu Golf Club, and golfers nicknamed the links "The Meadows." The course was once planned as an 18-hole layout but remained nine holes after road construction cut into the neighborhood. During the Depression, Works Progress Administration relief crews reconditioned and remodeled Mosholu along with the neighboring Van Cortlandt course. In the 2000s the city built the Croton Water Filtration Plant beneath part of the property, and architect Stephen Kay completely reconstructed the course; its driving range and putting green now sit atop the plant. Mosholu is home to First Tee Metro New York.