Dedham Country Polo and Polo Club - Foursome with Carts


Item Number: 223

Time Left: CLOSED

Online Close: Mar 26, 2023 9:02 PM EDT

Bid History: 19 bids - Item Sold!





Description

One round of golf for 4 players at Dedham Country and Polo Club, Dedham, MA.  Includes golf carts.


Golf must be scheduled within 1 year of purchase - March 2024.


Please note that guests are restricted before 10AM on weekends.


https://www.dedhamclub.org/


The Dedham Country and Polo Club origin dates back to 1887, when George Nickerson hosted a gathering with William F. Weld, Frederic J. Stimson, Samuel D. Warren, and Herbert Maynard. Looking over the host’s sprawling property in Dedham, the group decided it was the perfect place to play polo. It was a novel idea, as few in New England had seen or played polo at that time. In August of that year, the Dedham Polo Club was officially formed with each member contributing an initiation fee of $86.14.


As the Dedham Polo Club grew, so did the interests of its members. In 1893, a golf links was planned, and soon a 9-hole course, designed by Alex Findlay, was built on the property of General Stephen Weld in Dedham. In 1897, the Dedham Golf Club was formed as an offshoot of the Dedham Polo Club, and the clubs shared many of the same members. The Dedham Golf Club existed until 1901.  


On December 13, 1901, the Norfolk Country Club was incorporated, consisting of many members of the then-defunct Dedham Golf Club, as well as members of the thriving Dedham Polo Club. Like many of its peers at the time, the Norfolk Country Club established trap shooting as a club activity, a program that continues to run to this day. In 1902, the Norfolk Country Club signed a three-year lease for two parcels of land consisting of 83 acres of land in Dedham and Westwood — the current location of the Dedham Country and Polo Club.   


As a result of a merger between the Dedham Polo Club and the Norfolk Country Club in 1910, the Dedham Country and Polo Club was officially formed. Tennis courts are first referenced in club documents in 1912.  Then, in 1914, the Board voted to hire Donald Ross to design a 9-hole golf course. Sadly, on New Year’s Eve 1917, the club house burned down and given the financial constraints brought on by WWI, Dedham had no clubhouse for several years.   


Eventually, the Board decided to expand the membership by officially reincorporating in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (May 10, 1920) “for the purpose of encouraging athletic exercises, outdoor and indoor sports and pastimes of all kinds, including particularly, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, pony polo and other equestrian sports, the game of golf and the game of tennis; and for the establishment and maintenance of club quarters and grounds in connection with the same, and, for social purposes.”   


In 1922, the clubhouse opened in its current location, and it remains the heart of the club today. 


Golf: The first 9-hole golf course on the Club’s current property was designed by Donald Ross, with further designs implemented by Herbert Fowler; however, it was Seth Raynor, the most daring and bold of the golf architects, who completed DCPC’s first 18-hole course between 1923 and 1925, with the design of current course holes six through fifteen. Modifications have been made to the golf course over the years, including a significant renovation in 2017, but the course remains true to Raynor’s intent, and it continues to challenge golfers to this day.

Special Instructions

Golf must be used within a year of purchase, March 2024.


Please note that guests are restricted before 10AM on weekends.

Donated by

George Kostakos '86