Otsego Golf Club

Otsego Golf Club sits at the north end of Lake Otsego in central New York, and its origins reach back to the earliest days of golf in the United States. The course grew out of the neighboring Springfield estates of Henry L. Wardwell, a New York stockbroker who raised horses, cattle and sheep on his Pinehurst property, and Leslie Pell-Clarke, owner of the Swanswick estate, part of which is now the site of the Glimmerglass Opera. The two men had been classmates at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and while Wardwell's interests ran more to farming and gardening, Pell-Clarke was a devoted golfer who had already built a nine-hole course at his winter home in Orlando, Florida, in 1892.