The Golf Club At Middle Bay

The Golf Club at Middle Bay grew out of the Oceanside Golf & Country Club, which John Duncan Dunn designed and which opened in 1931 around Waukena and Skillman avenues after work began in 1929. Oceanside hosted the 1938 Metropolitan PGA. Following a 1952 reconfiguration, the property reopened in full as the private Middle Bay Country Club in 1955, with Alfred Tull designing the course and later modifying holes as irrigation needs and salt spray from the surrounding bays required. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused millions of dollars of damage to the grounds, clubhouse and equipment, and the club closed in the face of bankruptcy. A former member revived it within months as the semi-private South Bay Country Club, and after lease problems a new operator renamed it The Golf Club at Middle Bay.