In 1923, a group of Fresno residents formed the Fort Washington Golf Club, selected club officers and purchased 126 acres of land to build a golf course near the Fort Washington schoolhouse. The land, at the time, was an undeveloped grain field. The course was designed by Los Angeles-based golf architect William Watson. The club began with 40 members and the first golf ball was hit on June 17, 1923, by then president of the club, Dr. Arthur Albright. The original members paid an initiation fee of $50 (), and monthly dues of $2.75, (). During the
Roaring Twenties, the game of golf expanded greatly in popularity and the new course at Fort Washington joined
Sunnyside Country Club, founded in 1911, as a golfing facility serving the Fresno area. Riverside Country Club, also in Fresno but to the west, opened the same year. At the time the course opened, there were nine completed holes and the other nine were under construction. A small by clubhouse was included in the 1923 construction. Employees of the
Sugar Pine Lumber Company who were also members, built a distinctive log archway in 1928. The archway was removed in 1994. He continued in his capacity at the club for 32 years. ==References==