Powelton Club
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| Coordinates | 41°31′28″N 74°00′57″W / 41.52444°N 74.01583°W |
| Location | Balmville, NY, United States |
| Established | 1892 |
| Type | private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Website | http://www.powelton.com/ |
| Designed by | Devereux Emmet |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 6,007 yards (5,493 m) |
| Course rating | 69.3 |
Powelton Club is located between US 9W, Interstate 84, Balmville Road and Chestnut Lane in the hamlet of Balmville, New York, United States, just north of the city of Newburgh, in the Town of Newburgh. Originally established as an archery club, it is one of the five oldest golf courses in the state, and the ten oldest in the U.S. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999.
The property had first been known as Powelton Farm, then Powelton House, after a resort hotel built on it that burned down in 1870. Organized recreational activity, a new development in the Gilded Age, began with the informal establishment of the Powelton Archery Club in 1878. The next year, tennis courts that exist today were built, and the Powelton Lawn Tennis Club of Newburgh was incorporated in 1882, one of the first tennis programs in the U.S. and one of the original 33 recognized by the United States Lawn Tennis Association when it was established later that same year.
Ten years later the organization signed a five-year lease on 1.7 acres (6,800 m²) of land surrounding a newly built clubhouse. Baseball, bowling and croquet facilities were added, and club lore has it that the first five golf holes came almost immediately thereafter, only four years after the first American course was built in Yonkers. It is not known who designed them.
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