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Nominated for: BEST Golf Course
Brookside Country Club is a private, member-owned country club and one of the oldest established clubs in the area which originally took form as "Lakeside Country Club" in the last decade of the nineteenth century. In 1903, the members of "Lakeside Country Club" bought a casino and began reconstructing a 9-hole golf course located at Myers Lake in Canton, Ohio. In 1917, a move to acquire more land for an additional nine holes was begun, and the search ended in 1920 at the present location. A year later, the famous golf course architect, Donald Ross, designed and built 18 holes of golf. Four clay tennis courts were built that same year. The official opening of Brookside Country Club was celebrated in the summer of 1923 with a gala dinner-dance. The size of the club, its ambience and its dedicated members were the "talk" of Canton.
