>> THE COUNTRY CLUB MOVEMENT. DEVELOPED IN AMERICA FIRST AS A. RIDING CLUB MOVEMENT. AND IT'S ONLY IN THE EARLY.20Th CENTURY THAT IT BECOMES A. GOLF CLUB IN ONE FORM OR. ANOTHER. IN COLUMBUS, THE FIRST OF THOSE.
WAS THE ARLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB. >> IT WAS A RELATIVELY WOODED. AREA, AND I KNOW SOME OF THE. HOLES PLAYED DOWN THE HILL AND.
ACROSS THE TRACKS. >> AND THERE WAS A SWINGING OR. DROP BRIDGE THAT ALLOWED THE. GOLFERS TO WALK FROM THE RIDGE.
OF THE GOLF COURSE OVER THE. RAILROAD TRACKS TO THE OTHER. SIDE WHERE THEY WOULD REACH THE. FIRST HOLE.
>> THE SECOND FAIRWAY THEN RAN. ACROSS DUBLIN PIKE. THE THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH. FAIRWAY WERE THEN ALONG THE.
RIVER. THE GOLFERS THEN FOR THE SIXTH. HOLE DROVE IT BACK ACROSS THE. ROAD, UP THE HILL, BACK OVER THE.
RAILROAD TRACKS TO THE SOUTH END. OF THE NINE-HOLE GOLF COURSE. THAT WAS A CHALLENGE FOR ANY. GOLFER.
>> FOLLOWING THAT WAS THE. COLUMBUS COUNTRY CLUB IN 1905. THE SCIOTO COUNTRY CLUB IN 1916, DESIGNED BY THE NOTED GOLF. COURSE DESIGNER, DONALD ROSS.
>> FOUR PROMINENT COLUMBUS. BUSINESSMEN -- JAMES HAMILL, SAMUEL P. BUSH, W.K. LANMAN AND.
BUTLER SHELDON -- TRAVELED ONE. DAY TO SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK, AND PLAYED AN 18-HOLE GOLF. COURSE. AFTER THE ROUND, THEY DECIDED, "HEY, WE OUGHT TO CONSIDER THIS.
FOR CENTRAL OHIO." AND THEY REALIZED THAT THE NINE. HOLES AT ARLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB. WOULDN'T SUFFICE FOR THE NEW. TREND IN GOLF OF 18 HOLES.
OUR FOUR FOUNDERS WHEN TO THE. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT ARLINGTON. COUNTRY CLUB AND BASICALLY. PROPOSED THE IDEA OF SCIOTO WITH.
18 HOLES, UP-TO-DATE MODERN. FACILITIES. AND WHAT WAS INTERESTING IS THE. ARLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB OKAYED.
THIS PROPOSAL AND ALLOWED FOR. THEIR MEMBERS TO JOIN AT A. PREFERENTIAL RATE. >> THEY REALLY WANTED TO ATTRACT.
A NATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT. >> IN 1920, THE CLUB HIRED. GEORGE SARGENT AS THEIR HEAD. GOLF PROFESSIONAL.
AND THIS WAS A VERY FORTUNATE. HIRE FOR SCIOTO BECAUSE. GEORGE SARGENT ROSE IN THE RANKS. OF PGA PROFESSIONALS AND BECAME.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE PGA IN. 1924. HIM BEING PRESIDENT LED US TO. NEGOTIATE AND SUCCESSFULLY LAND.
THE 1926 U.S. OPEN AND ALSO THE. 1931 RYDER CUP TOURNAMENT, WHICH. THE UNITED STATES WAS TRIUMPHANT.
IN THE 9-3 SCORE OVER GREAT. BRITAIN. THE TRADITION OF MAJOR GOLF. CONTINUED IN 1950 WHEN WE HOSTED.
THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP. MAYOR JIM RHODES WAS INTIMATELY. INVOLVED IN ATTRACTING. SAM SNEAD, LLOYD MANGRUM, VERY.
PROMINENT PLAYERS OF THE TIME. 18 YEARS LATER, IN 1968, WE. HOSTED THE U.S. AMATEUR.
SUBSEQUENTLY AFTER THAT, WE. HOSTED THE 1986 U.S. SENIOR. OPEN.
>> SCIOTO COUNTRY WAS REALLY A. LANDMARK IN THIS COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, IT'S THE HOME OF. JACK NICKLAUS, WHO WAS A VERY.
FAMOUS GOLFER AND HAS DONE AN. AWFUL LOT FOR THIS COMMUNITY. >> AS ONE OF HIS GOOD FRIENDS, ROBIN OBETZ DESCRIBED HIM "ABOVE. AVERAGE IN EVERYTHING HE DID AS.
A KID." HE WAS AN ABOVE AVERAGE STUDENT, HE WAS AN ABOVE AVERAGE ATHLETE. AND HE TOOK TO GOLF AT A VERY. YOUNG AGE. JACK TOOK HIS FIRST GOLF LESSON.
FROM OUR GOLF PROFESSIONAL. JACK GRAU. AND BEFORE YOU KNEW IT, HE WAS. WINNING STATE AND NATIONAL.
TOURNAMENTS. AND TO THINK THAT JACK NICKLAUS, THE GREATEST GOLFER THAT EVER. LIVED, HIT THOUSANDS OF GOLF. BALLS ON OUR RANGE, CUT HIS.
TEETH ON OUR GOLF COURSE, IS. REALLY AN AWESOME THOUGHT. ON OUR CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, WE WILL BE HOSTING AGAIN THE. 2016 U.S.
SENIOR OPEN. >> A HUNDRED YEARS IS. CULMINATING. WE'VE HIT THAT.
SO WHAT'S HAPPENING THE NEXT. 20 YEARS, THE NEXT 40 YEARS, AND. THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO. SHAPE TODAY.
WE'RE TRYING TO REMAIN RELEVANT. WE WANT TO FURTHER THE GAME OF. GOLF. AND SO HOSTING A CHAMPIONSHIP, WE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A NEAT.
THING THAT WOULD DRAW THE WHOLE. MEMBERSHIP TOGETHER..
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