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Garden City Golf Club is a private golf course in the Incorporated Village of Garden City on Long Island, New York, opened in 1899 as an 18-hole layout. The course features 6,882 yards from the longest tees for a par of 73. Originally designed by Devereux Emmet as a nine-hole layout that was expanded to eighteen holes with a total length of over 6,000 yards, making it the longest course in the United States at the time. A few years later, Walter Travis redesigned the layout, adding numerous bunkers and modifying the greens.

The Hempstead Plain location is approximately ten miles from the Atlantic Ocean, featuring sandy loam soil and deep bunkers that give the course links-like characteristics despite not being a true links. The course is characterized by many deep pot bunkers that create strategic challenges. The finishing hole is a rare par-3 closing hole among top-ranked courses. The 18th hole, a 190-yard par 3, plays over a pond to a green with a strong back-to-front tilt.

The course hosted the U.S. Open in 1902, won by Laurie Auchterlonie. Garden City Golf Club hosted the U.S. Amateur in 1900, 1908, 1913, and 1936, and hosted the Walker Cup in 1924. In 2013, the course was ranked 26th in Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the U.S. and 47th in the Top 100 Courses in the World.