Dellwood Country Club
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Paramount Country Club is a private country club
Country club
A country club is a private club, often with a closed membership, that typically offers a variety of recreational sports facilities and is located in city outskirts or rural areas. Activities may include, for example, any of golf, tennis, swimming or polo...

 located in New City, NY, on the site of Mountain View Farm
Mountain View Farm
Mountain View Farm may refer to:* Mountain View Farm , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas* Mountain View Farm , listed on the NRHP in Cheshire County, New Hampshire...

, the former home of Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 founder Adolf Zukor. It features an 18-hole golf course
Golf course
A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...

 designed by golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast.

History

Paramount Country Club is located on land originally bought by Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 founder Adolf Zukor in 1918, from Lawrence Abraham. Zukor expanded this estate, commissioning noted golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast to build an eighteen-hole golf course on the property, which opened in 1920.

Following the reorganization of Paramount Pictures in 1936, Zukor was not able to continue maintaining the Mountain View Farm estate as a private property, and so opened it for membership as the Mountain View Golf and Country Club. In 1948, he sold the property, which became the Dells Golf and Country Club and then Dellwood Country Club. In 2011 the club changed its name to Paramount Country Club, "a name which better reflects the rich history of the club."

The course was redesigned by William F. Mitchell in 1951 and Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. was a golf course architect who designed about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world...

 in 1956. Starting in 2011, the course will be undergoing a renovation by Jim Urbina
Jim Urbina
Jim Urbina was recently named the 2010 golf course architect of the year by Golf.com and PlanetGolf.com. Jim worked under Tom Doak for 17 years and was an integral part of the work done at Pacific Dunes, Ballyneal and Sebonack. He recently co-designed Old MacDonald, the fourth course at the...

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Facilities

As well as the 18-hole championship golf course, Paramount Country Club has other sporting facilities, such as 12 har-tru tennis courts and an olympic-sized swimming pool.

Club Pro

The head golf pro at Paramount Country Club is John Klug of New City NY. He has been the Club Pro since 2005.

The head tennis pro at Paramount Country Club is Guy Gebbia of Nyack NY. He was a three-time Rockland County men's singles champion.

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