Eating Disorders: Albuquerque Country Club

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Albuquerque Country Club

Special thanks to Brad Tepper - a historian of the Albuquerque Country Club who was able to provide documents regarding the purchase of their old property by the Sigma Chi Alumni.The Beta Xi Chapter of Sigma Chi was chartered in 1916. This was 61 years after the founding of Sigma Chi in 1855 and 27 years after the founding of UNM in 1889. The Chapter house was located at Central Ave and Terrace.Enjoyment of the game of golf dominated their leisure time, and it was the game of golf that motivated twenty-two local businessmen to incorporate in April, 1914. In time, they established a five-hole golf course with gravel fairways and sand "greens" near the present north UNM golf course.The view was magnificent in those days, and although golfers fought dust storms and rattlesnakes, the game was just as enjoyable (and as frustrating) in 1914 as it is now. Legend has it that during a tournament once played on the old sand course, the wind was so strong that golf balls pitched onto the green would be blown right back off. But those were good days, with dances, parties and social gatherings of members at the club house. Though wives appeared on the scene for these activities, they were never seen on the golf course. Things were very different in 1914; our ladies couldn't even vote. . .