Possible Missing Links: Oakland Beach Golf Club, Warwick, RI

[Sven Nilsen]

I stumbled across a notation of the Oakland Beach Golf Club in Rhode Island in the Harpers Guide of 1900.  Oakland Beach is a section of Warwick, and if you do a Google Map search there is a portion of land near Steven O'Connor Blvd (map url copied below) that looks like a grassed area that could be a couple of old golf holes.

Is anyone from RI familiar with the area, or familiar with a course that may have existed in the area?

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=images&q=oakland+beach+ri&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89e44d97d9538793:0x9a89a91b6b8b965b,Oakland+Beach,+RI&gl=us&ei=qbJQUJWAGqKFywG1yoGYBw&sqi=2&ved=0CJ8BELYD

[Joe Bausch]

A quick search of my archives and the typical online sites I have access to has turned up nothing on "Oakland Beach Golf Club".

[Mark Bourgeois]

Nothing in that neighborhood as of 1939.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Sounds like the golf course was at the hotel. It burned in 1903, but not completely, and was rebuilt.



...and here's a website/w drawings and postcards of the general area and the hotel, which was located at the water's edge on the OB peninsula.

http://mrsgussdoughboys.com/?page_id=49