Open and Oak Hill has welcomed all of this country’s traveling men’s majors, plus a Ryder Cup - a collection no other course can claim. ![]() ![]() Amateurs, two Senior PGAs and a Senior U.S. And it’s getting set this month for its fourth PGA Championship, which will give it more turns as the tournament’s host than any club other than Southern Hills. Oak Hill has since staged those events three times each. “This course is certainly one of the finest I have ever seen,” he said. Photographs from the event show a smiling Snead accepting his winner’s check, while news accounts convey what he thought of the venue. That August, a luminous field, highlighted by Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead, competed in the Rochester Times-Union Open, on Oak Hill’s Donald Ross–designed East Course, with Snead breezing to a seven-shot win. Gannett was a proud member of Oak Hill Country Club, on the leafy outskirts of Rochester, and he hoped to draw top talent for a tournament there. ![]() Gannett, founder of the media company that still bears his name, made headlines of his own when he put forth a prize through one of his newspapers, the Times-Union, in upstate New York. In the latest phase of its evolution, Oak Hill's East Course has been restored, its Donald Ross imprint revived and championship teeth retained.
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