Westmoreland Country Club

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The handsome clubhouse at the Westmoreland County Club was designed
 by Verus T. Ritter, one of Huntington’s more prominent architects

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HUNTINGTON — The Westmoreland Country Club was designed and built
by Hermon Shute, a club-maker from the English midlands who
immigrated to this country, arriving in Huntington in 1906.

The “father” of golf in Huntington, Shute built the city’s first golf course,
 the old Cabell County Club, located at 17th Street West at the banks
 of Four Pole Creek. (The site of today’s St. Cloud Commons.)

Next, he built in and served as professional at the Westmoreland Club,
then the Guyan Golf and Country Club and, finally, the Spring Valley
 Country Club, built to replace the Westmoreland course.

The greens at the Cabell Country Club regularly flooded, so that
 prompted club officials to go looking for a new site. They
found it just east of Camden Park and the mouth of
Twelve Pole Creek. The new Westmoreland
 Country Club opened in 1911.

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Note:  This Article and picture appeared in the Herald-Dispatch Newspaper on June 16. 2020.

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