The CSGA Links Volume 2 Issue 2 April, 2014 | Page 14

Back in Time
The 2014 CSGA Championship season begins with a trip to a club that
boasts a history of Champions and Championships unlike any other.

Wethersfield Country Club to Host Three CSGA Events in 2014

T

he One Hundred Sixteenth Season of
the Connecticut State Golf Association
kicks off in just a few short weeks, and
it only seems appropriate to start the season
at one of Connecticut’s most storied clubs. The
“Club of Champions” will commence the CSGA
championship season by hosting the first One
Day Tournament on Monday, April 14th. Later
in the season, Wethersfield will host the CSGA
Widdy Neale Scholarship Outing on August 26th
and the 69th Senior Amateur Championship on
September 29th and 30th.

Always in excellent playing condition,

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Connecticut State Golf Association

Wethersfield Country Club is renowned as the
site of the Insurance City Open/Greater Hartford
Open for 32 years from 1952 until 1983. All
of the great professionals of the day played
at Wethersfield with only two exceptions, Ben
Hogan and Byron Nelson, although Nelson did
appear there in an exhibition.

Of course, Arnold Palmer won his first PGA
Tour event in the United States at Wethersfield in
1956 while Jack Nicklaus was never successful in
winning at Wethersfield. Ted Kroll (the leading
money winner on tour) won the inaugural event
in 1952, followed by Bob Toski in 1953 (his first