# Myopia Club

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The '''Myopia Club''', regarded by some historians<ref name="Mayo">Mayo, p.&nbsp;63. Others regard [The Country Club](/source/The_Country_Club) in Brookline, Massachusetts as being the oldest, even though it was incorporated three years later.  (It depends on one's definition of "country club".)</ref> as being the oldest country club, was founded in the 1870s by four brothers with poor vision: Gordon, Charles, Morton, and Frederick Prince.<ref name="Moss15">Moss, p.&nbsp;15.</ref>  At first it was a neighborhood boys club devoted to boating and tennis, based on the shores of Wedge Pond in [Winchester, Massachusetts](/source/Winchester%2C_Massachusetts).<ref name="Mayo"/>  Later the members' interests turned to riding and foxhunting, and the club moved to another site in Winchester, on Mystic Lake, where it became formally incorporated in 1879.<ref name="Moss15"/>

Several Myopia Club members were interested in moving the club closer to Boston, and this led to the founding of [The Country Club](/source/The_Country_Club) in [Brookline, Massachusetts](/source/Brookline%2C_Massachusetts) in 1882.<ref name="Moss16">Moss, p.&nbsp;16.</ref>  But fox hunting proved impossible in Brookline, so those most interested in this activity founded the [Myopia Hunt Club](/source/Myopia_Hunt_Club) in [Hamilton, Massachusetts](/source/Hamilton%2C_Massachusetts).<ref name="Moss16"/>

The Mystic Lake site became known as "Myopia Hill".  The Winchester Country Club was founded there in 1902, and it still occupies the site.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090531123548/http://www.winchestercc.org/club/scripts/public/public.asp]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* James M. Mayo, ''The American country club: its origins and development'', Rutgers University Press, 1998.
* Richard J. Moss, ''Golf and the American country club'', University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Category:Winchester, Massachusetts

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