Pomonok Country Club Explained

Golf Facility Name:Pomonok Country Club
Location:Pomonok, Queens,
New York, U.S.
Establishment:1886, 1921 (closed 1949)
Type:Private
Pushpin Map:USA#New York#New York City
Pushpin Relief:1
Elevation:80feet
Holes:18
Tournaments:PGA Championship (1939)
Designer1:Devereux Emmet
Par1:72
Length1:[1]

Pomonok Country Club was a country club in the northeastern United States, located in what is now the Pomonok neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. The golf course was located between Kissena Boulevard and 164th Street, just to the south of Horace Harding Boulevard (now the Long Island Expressway) and to the east of Queens College.[2]

The club was established in 1886 by members of the Flushing Athletic Club in southern Flushing and moved to the Kissena Boulevard location in 1921. Devereux Emmet designed the golf course; the members disbanded and sold the course Part of the site today contains the Electchester cooperative housing development, Pomonok public housing, and an extension of Parsons Boulevard.[2] [3]

The golf course hosted the PGA Championship in 1939, in which Henry Picard defeated Byron Nelson in the final in The match play event was held in July during the New York World's Fair, which was located at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, approximately 2miles northwest.

The former course of Fresh Meadow Country Club was a few miles east (40.733°N -73.78°W); it hosted the PGA Championship in 1930 and the U.S. Open in 1932. That course was sold in 1946 for development and the club moved to Lake Success, 5miles northeast.

Notes and References

  1. News: Four aces smash par to lead meet as P.G.A. split widens to chasm . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . July 11, 1939 . 13.
  2. Web site: Pomonok. Forgotten NY. 2016-08-02.
  3. Book: Quirin, William L. . America's Linksland: A Century of Long Island Golf . 2002 . Sleeping Bear Press . Chelsea, MI . 1-58536-087-2 . 199.