The Janesville Country Club is a private 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....

 and social club located in the Town of Janesville

Janesville (town), Wisconsin

Janesville is a town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,750 at the 2000 census. The City of Janesville is located to the southeast of and adjacent to the town...

, just outside the northwest city limits of Janesville, Wisconsin

Janesville, Wisconsin

Janesville is a city in southern Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat of Rock County and the principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 62,998.-History:...

. Founded in 1894 by Alexander Galbraith who brought golf clubs and balls back to Janesville from Scotland

Scotland

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, it holds the historical distinction of being the first golf club in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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, the second in the Midwest, and the sixth in the U.S.

External links

• Janesville Country Club official website