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In 1916, Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio hired Donald Ross, the most famous and prolific designer of his time, to design an eighteen-hole championship golf course. Today, the story of championship golf in America could not be told without mention of Ross’s architectural influence.
The championship course was completed in the fall of 1919. After hosting a successful Ohio Open, it was announced that Inverness Club would host the 1920 U.S. Open. This was to be the first of four Opens (1920, 1931, 1957, 1979) that Inverness Club has hosted, along with five other championships, including two of the most dramatic PGA Championships (1986, 1993) in history. Before 1937, no club located outside of the original thirteen colonies, hosted multiple U.S. Open Championships, other than Inverness Club and the Chicago Golf Club, which hosted its last U.S. Open championship in 1911.
Inverness captures some of Ross's other classic designs , the Geometric shapes and rolling huge greens of Chicago GC ( one of my fav. TGC2019 courses ),the false front greens with fall offs everywhere and putts that can break 20 ft you find at Pinehurst #2 ( another favorite ). In 2016 Inverness Club underwent a massive redesign and modernization in preparation for the 2019 US Jr amatuer and the 2021 Solheim cup. These changes included removal of most of the trees,the addition of 500 yards or so and 4 completely new holes. They also eliminated (due to maintenance costs) most of the severe pot style bunkers you will find in this classic lidar version of the 1916-2016 design. Funny, I was actually half done with the course in July and came across a new Youtube video showing an Inverness that I was not at all familiar with. As always this course has been meticulously crafted and tuned for Sim play. If you chose to play pin #1 please repair all putter marks on greens. Enjoy and Merry Inverness
The championship course was completed in the fall of 1919. After hosting a successful Ohio Open, it was announced that Inverness Club would host the 1920 U.S. Open. This was to be the first of four Opens (1920, 1931, 1957, 1979) that Inverness Club has hosted, along with five other championships, including two of the most dramatic PGA Championships (1986, 1993) in history. Before 1937, no club located outside of the original thirteen colonies, hosted multiple U.S. Open Championships, other than Inverness Club and the Chicago Golf Club, which hosted its last U.S. Open championship in 1911.
Inverness captures some of Ross's other classic designs , the Geometric shapes and rolling huge greens of Chicago GC ( one of my fav. TGC2019 courses ),the false front greens with fall offs everywhere and putts that can break 20 ft you find at Pinehurst #2 ( another favorite ). In 2016 Inverness Club underwent a massive redesign and modernization in preparation for the 2019 US Jr amatuer and the 2021 Solheim cup. These changes included removal of most of the trees,the addition of 500 yards or so and 4 completely new holes. They also eliminated (due to maintenance costs) most of the severe pot style bunkers you will find in this classic lidar version of the 1916-2016 design. Funny, I was actually half done with the course in July and came across a new Youtube video showing an Inverness that I was not at all familiar with. As always this course has been meticulously crafted and tuned for Sim play. If you chose to play pin #1 please repair all putter marks on greens. Enjoy and Merry Inverness
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