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Ridgewood Country Club played host to the 1935 Ryder Cup matches between the USA and Great Britain. Team Captains were Walter Hagen (US) and Charles Whitcombe (GB). This was the last time that Walter Hagen would represent the USA as playing Captain after five consecutive Ryder Cup appearances. Hagen elected to sit out the singles and happily watched his team record a comfortable home-soil victory from the gallery, USA 9 - GB 3. The Ryder Cup was played at Southport & Ainsdale in 1933 and in 1937.
Ridgewood Country Club hosted the 1935 Ryder Cup, which heralded a victory for Walter Hagen’s team USA over Great Britain. The USA retained a tight grip on the Ryder Cup for the next 22 years. Since the Second World War, Ridgewood has played host to the 1974 US Amateur, three Senior Major championships, a Ladies Pro Tour event and, in 2008, the “The Barclays”, which is commonly referred to as “The Westchester” because it was played at the Westchester Country Club from the tournament’s inception in 1967 until 2007.
There are three nine-hole loops at Ridgewood Country Club, West, East and Center, which refer to their location relative to the fabulous Clifford Wendehack-designed clubhouse. It’s the East and West combination that form the premier day-to-day 18-hole course, but all three circuits remain true to the original A.W. Tillinghast 1929 design, although Baltusrol and Winged Foot are often considered to be “Tillies” best Metropolitan area creations.
The majority of holes at Ridgewood require a right to left flight off the tee, although the last hole on the West loop asks for the opposite shape. The key to scoring well here is accurate driving as mature hardwoods have created tight, leafy corridors. Gil Hanse has been advising Ridgewood Country Club on course restoration matters since 1995, rebuilding tees and bunkers and removing a few trees here and there.
In 2008, Ridgewood was the first course – after long-term host Westchester – to stage The Barclays (now The Northern Trust). The club used seven holes from the East, five from the Center and the closing six holes from the West loop. Fiji’s Vijay Singh won the 2008 event before it moved to Liberty National in 2009. The Barclays returned to Ridgewood in 2010 and again 2014 before Bryson DeChambeau won the re-branded Northern Trust tournament in fine style in 2018.
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A.W. Tillinghast’s father took him to St Andrews in 1896 and introduced him to Old Tom Morris. His golfing passion developed rapidly following lessons from the old master and four-time Open Champion.
