The facility includes such amenities as a pro shop, lessons, clinics, a clubhouse, lockers, a snack bar, a lounge/bar, and a snack cart roaming the course. The course’s longest hole is #2 at 473 yards. The course’s signature hole is #17, which is a 395-yard, par 4 hole offering spectacular views of the Long Island Sound and Throgs Neck Bridge. Eastland Partners of Hopedale had offered to buy the course for 3.1 million and build 70 to 140 empty-nester two-bedroom condominiums on about 25 of the course’s 118 acres. It is designed for beginner to intermediate level players, and par ranges from 3 to 5 strokes. The somewhat hilly course contains both straight, open fairways as well as others lined with trees and forest. Since 1983, American Golf Corporation manages the course as a public amenity under a concession agreement with the New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation.Īccording to the Parks Department: "Clearview Park and Golf Course is a public 18-hole course located about 15 miles from midtown Manhattan. Like the North Hills Country Club (now the Douglaston Golf Course) the Clearview Golf Course was designd by landscape architect Willie Tucker in 1925. That same year, the installation of a new course drainage system began. Originally called the Clearview Golf and Yacht Club, the 103 acre course was founded in 1925 and catered to an exclusive clientele including New York State Governor Alfred E.
The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority acquired lands on the eastern side of the property in 1957 for the construction of the Clearview Expressway. Between 19, the entire course was redesigned and new club facilities were built. In 1931 the City of New York bought the property from the Clearview Golf and Yacht Club for $940,000 and placed the course under the Parks Department management. Originally called the Clearview Golf and Yacht Club, the 103-acre course was founded in 1925 and catered to an exclusive clientele including New York State Governor Alfred E.
0 kommentar(er)
