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Preservation Award Given To Palmetto Club
The Palmetto Golf Club received the Historic Aiken Foundation Preservation Award for 1983, presented by Dr. Taylor Garnett. Robert Knowles accepted on behalf of the club at Rye Patch. The course began in 1892 with four holes, expanded to 18 by 1896, and the current clubhouse dates from 1902 with later grass greens by Dr. Alistair McKenzie and Winthrop Rutherford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Moore
Palmetto Golf Club
Nancy Wilds
Historic Aiken
Robert Knowles
Palmetto
Knowles
Historic Aiken Foundation
The
Historical Society
Phil Jones
Rye Patch
Aiken
William C. Whitney
Stanford White
Alistair McKenzie
Augusta Natonal
Winthrop Rutherford
Taylor Garnett