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From its inception in 1898, Wykagyl Country Club has shared with America

the wonderful times of prosperity and success, and endured with her the painful moments of two world wars and a depression.

Wykagyl is one of the most challenging and beautiful courses in the country, but encouraging the sport of golf was not always as easy as it is today. In 1898, a group of ardent sportsmen - anxious to pursue the new game - met and formally organized the Pelham Country Club (no relation to the present club of the same name). Land was leased, and a nine-hole course was staked out on a tract just beyond the New Rochelle line, on the north side of the Boston Post Road. Soon after its formation the Club boasted 125 Members.

In 1904, however, a new owner acquired the land and immediately ordered the Club to vacate his property. The determined Members found a new home in New Rochelle: the farm of one Livingston Disbrow. An agreement gave the Club the right to lease the Disbrow land for three years at $3,500 per year, with an option to buy for $750 an acre. Three years later, the property was purchased, and the Club found its permanent home.

The Disbrow land had a history of its own. Over the acres where wedges and five irons now cut through grass, Indians and early pioneers of Dutch and Huguenot ancestry once roamed. In fact, the history of the land probably gave the Club its name, though the story of how the prestigious and colorful title came into being has a mysterious and amusing twist.

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