- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Golf Courses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Temporary Emergency Relief Act (NY only)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Dyker Beach Golf Course first opened in 1897. It was redesigned by Jon Van Kleek in 1935-1936. On May 7, 1936, the Department of Parks announced that the Dyker Beach Golf Course had been “thoroughly reconstructed with new tees and greens throughout…with relief funds provided by the C.W.A., T.E.R.A. and W.P.A.” The renovation project was part of a larger city wide renovation of public golf courses that was funded by New Deal programs.
David Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker, remarks that “Dyker is where Tiger Woods’s father, Earl, learned to play golf, in the early nineteen-seventies. (He was stationed at Fort Hamilton, across the street.).”
Source notes
Department of Parks, Press Release, May 7, 1936
Site originally submitted by Frank da Cruz on October 2, 2016.
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