Location Portland, Oregon Type Private Designed by Jack Moffat Phone +1 503-654-6521 | Established 1896 Website Waverley Country Club Length 6,579 Total holes 18 | |
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Address 1100 SE Waverly Dr, Portland, OR 97222, USA Similar Portland Golf Club, The Reserve Vineyard, First Regiment Armory A, The Fields Park, World Forestry Center | ||
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The Waverley Country Club is a country club located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Chartered in 1896, the club was the second private golf club established west of the Mississippi River.
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History
The club was established in April 1896, with its original golf course laid out several miles northeast, in the Richmond neighborhood, near the present-day corner of Southeast César E. Chávez Boulevard and Powell Boulevard. Established two years after the Tacoma Country & Golf Club, Waverley was the second private golf club in the United States established west of the Mississippi River.
A year later, in 1897, the club moved to its present location on the east bank of the Willamette River, just south of Sellwood. It was built on the site of an orchard owned by Oregon pioneer Henderson Luelling where Luelling and his orchard foreman Ah Bing developed the Bing cherry. A golf course was built at the current location in 1898 and was designed by Jack Moffat.
The club, which was originally spelled Waverly after the Waverly-Richmond district in which it was first established, changed its name to Waverley in 1912, with some accounts blaming an engraving error for the change in spelling.
Tournaments hosted
The Blyth Tournament, one of the oldest international golf matches in the United States, has been held at Waverley since 1897. The first Oregon Amateur Golf Tournament was held at Waverley in 1904.
Winners of major championship tournaments held at Waverley: