Brookside Country Club

Its History and Its Vision

Brookside Country Club originally took form as Lakeside Country Club in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century. In 1903, the members of Lakeside Country Club bought a “casino” and began reconstructing a 9-hole golf course located at Myers Lake in Canton, Ohio.

In 1917, a move to acquire more land for an additional nine holes was spearheaded by Messrs. Paul B. Belden, H.H. Timken, W.R. Timken, J.F. Clark, Frank McLain, T.K. Harris, G. Leonard and Clarence Herbruck.

The search ended in 1920 at the present location of Brookside Country Club, and a year later the famous golf architect, Donald Ross, designed and built 18 holes of golf. The course has changed through maturity and subtle innovations, but the original concept of Donald Ross has been maintained. Four clay tennis courts were built the same year as the golf course under the auspices of Conrad “Chub” Weeks. (Ironically, Mr. Weeks succumbed on one of his beloved courts 18 years later.)

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