Echo Lake Country Club is a private, member-owned country club located in Westfield, New Jersey. The club was founded in 1899, and the golf course was designed by Donald Ross in 1913.
History The club was founded as the Cranford Golf Club in 1899, and a 9-hole golf course was designed by Willie Dunn on Lincoln Avenue in Cranford, New Jersey. Cranford business owners and trading-stamp magnates Thomas Sperry and William Miller Sperry were executives of the Cranford Golf Club on Lincoln Avenue, formerly known as Westfield Avenue and part of the Old York Road.Burditt Newspaper Index, Cranford Golf Club Entries. http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012_06_12_15_16_27.pdf; Burditt Newspaper Index, Sperry Family Entries. http://cranfordhistory.org/explore-cranford-history/burditt-index-main-page/ The club's 19th-century grounds off Lincoln Avenue were a former estate said to have supplied lumber to build the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") in the 1700s.Historic Tree Booklet by the Cranford Historic Grove & Arboretum 1033 Springfield Ave, Cranford, NJ 07016. http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HistoricTreeBooklet2011.pdf The grounds also included the largest sour gum ever recorded in the Northeastern states, known as the Cranford Pepperidge Tree or "Old Peppy."
Young men from the Cranford club went on to fame --- Max Marston of Central Avenue in Cranford, New Jersey won the National Amateur Golf Association Championship, and Dean Mathey won the National Clay Court Tennis Doubles Championship twice.Burditt Newspaper Index, Marston Family Entries, available at http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012_06_11_11_07_50; Dean Mathey by Robert C. Hall (the fascinating story of an extraordinary man and onetime Cranford resident, including Mathey's diary for all of 1918 during his military service in World War I).; http://pacf.org/dean-mathey/ (Dean Mathey was born in 1891 and raised in Cranford, N.J. and was a noted trustee of Princeton University); http://matheycollege.princeton.edu/about-us/history (Mathey was the namesake of Mathey College at Princeton University)
In 1912, the Cranford Golf Club purchased the Harper Farm in Westfield, New Jersey, and engaged Donald Ross to design the current course, which was completed in 1913. The clubhouse was built on a high bluff overlooking Echo Lake.
In 1921, the Cranford Golf Club and the Westfield Golf Club merged, choosing the name Echo Lake Country Club to reflect both the site, along the upper reaches of the Rahway River Parkway, and the broad country club activities offered.
Tournaments
National Championships The club has hosted three national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association: YearChampionshipWinnerScoreRunner-upSemi-FinalistsNotes1994U.S. Junior Amateur Terry Noe2 up Andy Barnes Charles Howell III Mauricio MunizUnited States Junior Amateur Championship, Past champions, accessed February 6, 20152002U.S. Girls' Junior Inbee Park4 & 3 Jenny Tangtiphaiboontana Allison Martin Hannah Jun2002 United States Girls' Junior Championship, Results, accessed February 6, 20152025U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Will Hartman & Tyler Mawhinney3 & 1 Evan Beck & Dan Walters Charlie Forster & Steen Zeman Carson Looney & Hunter Powell
PGA Tour Events
YearEventWinnerScoreRunners-upNotes1934Metropolitan Open Paul Runyan−1 Walter Hagen Wiffy CoxNew York Historical Museum & Library, Dictionary of New York Sports, accessed February 6, 2015
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