George Wright Golf Course
| Club information | |
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| Coordinates | 42°16′05″N 71°07′58″W / 42.26806°N 71.13278°W |
| Location |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States 
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| Established | 1938, 79 years ago |
| Type | Public |
| Owned by | City of Boston |
| Operated by | City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Tournaments hosted | MGA 2018 Massachusetts Amateur |
| Website | cityofbostongolf.com |
| Designed by | Donald Ross |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 6,440 yards (5,890 m) |
| Course rating | 69.5 |
| Slope rating | 126 |
| Course record | 63 (2008) |
George Wright Golf Course is a municipal golf course in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The course was designed by Donald Ross, with the construction completed as one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. It represents one of the least known but impressive examples of Ross' breathtaking design art. The course opened in 1938.
The course is named for George Wright, a Hall of Fame baseball player with the Boston Red Stockings, along with being one of the leaders of introducing golf to the Boston area in 1890.
Retired businessman Henry Sturgis Grew purchased several hundred acres of land (which later became known as "Grew's Woods") in 1847, in what was then the western section of the town of Dorchester Massachusetts. Grew became a founding father of the Town of Hyde Park, incorporated on April 22, 1868, composed of portions of Dorchester (including Grew's Woods), Dedham and Milton. Grew died in 1892. In 1925 his son Edward Wigglesworth Grew, as trustee of his father's estate, sold 13,700,000 square feet (1,270,000 m2) of the property through his company Meredith & Grew (now Colliers International) to the Bonelli-Adams Company. The intent was to set aside 136-acre (55 ha) of this land in order to construct a privately financed golf course, to be designed by Wayne Stiles.
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