ELMSFORD, N.Y. (February 14, 2014) - The Rockrimmon Country Club was established in 1947 and  is located on the border of North Stamford, Conn., and Pound Ridge, N.Y., with the clubhouse in Connecticut and most of the golf course in New York. It will host the 87th MGA Senior Amateur on May 6 and 7. 

Robert Trent Jones built the front nine first, then when adding the back nine, saw the need to install a “Golfalator” between the ninth green and tenth tee, a tram carrying six to eight people up a fifty-foot climb.  The tram crosses state lines and is the shortest interstate railroad in the United States.

Rockrimmon gained some notoriety in the mid-1950s when it allowed Jackie Robinson (who had a home nearby) and Joe Louis to play occasionally as guests. This was at a time when most country clubs in Fairfield County had exclusionary policies regarding blacks.  It was not an unfamiliar sight to see Robinson and Louis playing with baseball great Al Rosen, with Howard Cosell trailing, broadcasting the outcome of their game.
 
The course can be very hilly at times, and the holes are all lined by trees.  The postcard hole is the par-3 ninth, which requires a shot over a lake and three frontal bunkers to green the green.

- Written by Bill Quirin, MGA Historian and Author