Pease Golf Course

Pease Golf Course began in 1901 as the Portsmouth Country Club, when local residents bought farmland and hired Scottish-born Alex Findlay to lay out nine holes. The club expanded to 18 holes in 1929. In 1955 the Army Engineers took the property by eminent domain for the new Portsmouth Air Force Base, and the country club relocated. When the base was renamed in 1957 for Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Harl Pease Jr., the course took his name, and Al Zikorus redesigned it in 1960. After the base closed in 1991, the redevelopment plan opened the course to the public, and a third nine was added in 2000. Between 2012 and 2013 architect Brad Booth upgraded the Blue nine and rebuilt the flat, flood-prone original holes with new routing and drainage. Today the 27-hole facility is owned by the Pease Development Authority.