Quaker Ridge Golf Club

Quaker Ridge was formed in 1916 by a group of businessmen who acquired the land from a smaller, struggling club, founding it as a Jewish country club at a time when many clubs excluded Jewish members. They engaged A.W. Tillinghast to rework the seven existing holes and build eleven new ones; the course was completed in 1918, with the Tudor clubhouse following in 1923. When the club acquired additional land in 1925, Tillinghast returned to weave it into the routing. The layout has remained remarkably faithful to his work, with a bunker restoration and added tees between 1991 and 1993 the most significant later changes. Long admired as one of Tillinghast's finest and most understated designs, Quaker Ridge hosted the 1997 Walker Cup, won by the United States over a Great Britain and Ireland side that featured a teenaged Justin Rose, and later the 2018 Curtis Cup. The course is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.