Blue Mound Golf & Country Club is a country club

Country club

A country club is a private club, often with a closed membership, that typically offers a variety of recreational sports facilities and is located in city outskirts or rural areas. Activities may include, for example, any of golf, tennis, swimming or polo...

 located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Wauwatosa is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States, and was incorporated on May 27, 1897. As of the 2006 census estimate, the city's population was 44,798. Wauwatosa is located immediately west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area...

, USA

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The golf course

Golf course

A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...

 hosted the PGA Championship

PGA Championship

The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...

 in 1933

1933 PGA Championship

The 1933 PGA Championship was a golf competition held at Blue Mound Golf & Country Club. The competition was won by Gene Sarazen....

, won by Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S...

, 5 and 4, over Willie Goggin

Willie Goggin

Willie Goggin was an American professional golfer, who is notable for losing the 1933 PGA Championship to Gene Sarazen.-Tournament wins:this list is incomplete*1935 Northern California Open*1936 Northern California Open...

. It was Sarazen's third and final PGA Championship. He earned $1,000 for the victory.

The course also hosted the 1940 Women's Western Open where Babe Zaharias

Babe Zaharias

Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field...

 defeated Mrs. Russell Mann by a score of 5 and 4.

Blue Mound hosted the 2010 Western Junior

Western Junior

The Western Junior is the oldest national junior golf tournament in the United States. It was founded in 1914 and is organized by the Western Golf Association. It is played at a different course each year, primarily in the midwest. From 1914 to 1998, it was played with stroke play qualifying...

, won by Patrick Rogers. It was also the alternating course for the first two rounds of the 2011 U.S. Amateur, along with Erin Hills

Erin Hills

Erin Hills is a golf course located in Erin, Wisconsin. Construction began in 2004 and the course officially opened in 2006. It has been selected for the 2017 U.S. Open, which was announced on June 10, 2010. It also makes it the first PGA Tour event ever awarded to a course owned by one person.The...

, site of the 2017 U.S. Open

U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...

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External links

• Thegolfcourses.net