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Wawashkamo Golf Club

Field	Value
name	Wawashkamo Golf Club
nrhp_type	nhldcp	nocat = yes
image	Wawashkamo Golf Club state historic marker.jpg
image_size	275
caption	Michigan state historic marker
locmapin	Michigan#USA
map_caption	Location within the state of Michigan##Location within the United States
coordinates
location	1 British Landing Road
Mackinac Island, Michigan
designated_other1	Michigan State Historic Site
designated_other1_date	September 8, 1982
designated_other1_num_position	bottom
designated_nrhp_type	October 15, 1966
partof	Mackinac Island
partof_refnum	66000397

Mackinac Island, Michigan The Wawashkamo Golf Club is a nine-hole links golf course on Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan. The course was laid out by Alex Smith in 1898. The golf course retains many of the features of a nineteenth-century golf links, including a relatively treeless layout, comparatively short holes, and very long rough. Smith, a native Scotsman from Carnoustie, was familiar with the links courses of his boyhood home.

Wawashkamo was laid out on a farmer's field that had been the site of the 1814 Battle of Mackinac Island. Separate historical markers commemorate both the golf links and the battlefield. The name of the club and course comes from the Chippewa word waawaashkaamon for the act of 'walking a crooked trail'.

Longtime club pro Frank Dufina is believed to have had the longest tie between a course and a professional in U.S. golfing history. It spanned 70 years, from 1898 to 1968.

Wawashkamo was honored as one of "America's Historic Golf Landmarks" by Golf Digest in 1996. The course is contained within Mackinac Island State Park.

Club Officers: Peter M. Pellerito, President; Gaspare Calandrino, Vice President; Richard Riel, Treasurer; Kelly Rayment, Secretary

References

"NPS Focus". [[National Park Service]].
"History". Wawashkamo Golf Club.

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