Mon Valley Country Club closing in on century level
By RON PAGLIA
It’s unlikely any of the hundreds of motorists traveling busy Route 88 in Carroll Township find anything significant about the golfers they see at Monongahela Valley Country Club these days.
But it was nearly 99 years ago — Monday, July 5, 1920 — that the golf course at MVCC was officially opened. And the event was heralded in The Charleroi Mail as “one of more than usual interest to those who are connected with this new and splendid organization.”
The newspaper recalled that the golf links had been in the making for a number of months, and while there had been some playing in an informal way on the grounds during the preceding weeks, it was reserved for a general holiday to inaugurate the course in somewhat of a formal manner. Because the Fourth of July fell on a Sunday, the festivities were held July 5. There was no program in connection with the opening, only that the course was laid out in the manner in which it would remain in the future.
“Members of the club were on the course quite early in the day and from that time until late in the evening the cry of ‘fore’ was heard loud and clear,” The Mail story said of the July 5 event. “It was the first experience of many of the members in making a try at the ancient and honorable game of golf, but generally speaking the novices acquitted themselves with credit.
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