Shinnecock Hills Golf Club /

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is a prestigious links-style golf club located in the hamlet of Shinnecock Hills in the town of Southampton on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It has hosted the U.S. Open four times in three different centuries. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It lays claim to being the oldest formal organized golf club in the United States (1891) and it claims to have the oldest golf clubhouse in the U.S. (1892) and the first club to admit women (which it did from the start). The club traces its roots to an 1889-1890 trip by William K. Vanderbilt, Edward Meade and Duncan Cryder, to Biarritz in southern France where they encountered Willie Dunn, from Scotland, who was building a golf course at the resort. Back in the United States Meade and Cryder scouted for a place for a golf course near New York City. They chose the sandhills adjoining the Long Island Railroad just east of the Shinnecock Canal. The 80-acre (320,000 m) parcel was purchased for $2,500 and 44 original members signed up for $100 each. Willie Davis from the Royal Montreal Club designed a 12-hole course that opened in late summer 1891. Members of Shinnecock Indian