Leewood Golf Club

Chartered in October 1922, Leewood Golf Club is one of the oldest Westchester golf clubs with a rich tradition in local history. Among the charter members were D.W. Griffith, director of film classics The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, and the honorable Frederick P. Close, a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court and for many years Presiding Justice of its Appellate Division. The first President of the club was George W. Field, a Scarsdale resident who was a prominent New York attorney and a director of the Scarsdale National Bank. Situated precariously on a mass of boulders, many of them related to the famous Tuckahoe marble used in some of our great national buildings including the Washington Monument, the builders faced a formidable task in carving out a suitable golf course. The challenge was met by the first club professional, Carl Fox, who laid out and constructed the course aided by a corps of members who gave up their weekends to dig holes and bury boulders so th...