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Wykagyl Country Club is a golf course in the Wykagyl section of New Rochelle, New York. Lawrence Van Etten laid out the original golf course when the club moved to New Rochelle in 1905. In 1994, golf course architect Arthur Hills did a complete overhaul of the course to keep it in line with championship standards, such as being over 6,600 yards (6,000 m) long, with a 72 par. Wykagyl has five par fives, five par threes and eight par fours.

The Wykagyl course is hilly, tree-lined and very beautiful accented by its stone tees. It has small greens and more blind shots than any architect could get away with designing today. The tee shots on Holes 1, 3, 8, 15 and 17 are blind, and there are several blind approach shots on Holes 2, 6 and 14. English golf pro Harry Vardon dubbed the 18th hole, also known as "cardiac hill," as "one of the greatest" he ever played.

Golf historians have dubbed Wykagyl "The Cradle of the PGA". The 1949 Goodall Palm Beach Round Robin at Wykagyl was the first golf tournament to be broadcast by a television network. Wykagyl has hosted numerous matches from Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in 1913 to PGA events in the 1940s and 50s won by Bobby Locke, Robert DeVincenzo and Sam Snead and LPGA events from 1961 until 2007 with winners such as Betsey King, Nancy Lopez, Annika Sorenstam, Paula Creamer and Lorena Ochoa.