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What is the oldest golf course in Oregon?
What is the oldest golf course west of the Mississippi?
There is an easy answer to this question, as the oldest golf course in Oregon is even arguably the oldest golf course west of the Mississippi, and there is no argument it is the oldest continually running golf course west of the Mississippi.
The answer is the seaside Gearhart Golf Links, established in 1892 as a 3-hole golf course by some homesick Scotsmen as the legend goes.
Gearhart Golf Links’ website gives a lot of detail about the origins and subsequent history of the over 130-year-old course in the northwestern county of Clatsop. This includes homesick Scotsmen sticking tin cans into the dunes and knocking balls into them with sticks. A rudimentary yet accurate explanation of the game of golf.
The oldest course in Oregon started out with just three holes in 1888 along the seaside meadows of the Northwest Coast. Although golf was relatively new to the U.S. at that time, guests from the close-by Gearhart Hotel adopted it as a regular past-time. Over the years, the links course…
