Country Club of Virginia
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The Country Club of Virginia is a private club in the Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

 area, with three eighteen-hole golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 courses.

The original CCV consisted of the Westhampton Course 37°34′16"N 77°31′52"W in Richmond, which was built by Herbert Barker in 1908, renovated in 1921 by Donald Ross, and renovated again in 1931 by Fred Findlay. Its James River Course 37°34′13"N 77°36′41"W in Tuckahoe
Tuckahoe, Virginia
Tuckahoe is a census-designated place in Henrico County, Virginia, and a northwestern suburb of Richmond. The population was 43,242 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Tuckahoe is located at ....

, in Henrico County
Henrico County, Virginia
Henrico is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States. As of 2010, Henrico was home to 306,935 people. It is located in the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, was the site of the 1955 and 1975 U.S. Amateur Championship. The third course is the Tuckahoe Creek Course 37°34′23"N 77°37′32"W, also in Tuckahoe
Tuckahoe, Virginia
Tuckahoe is a census-designated place in Henrico County, Virginia, and a northwestern suburb of Richmond. The population was 43,242 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Tuckahoe is located at ....

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