Pine Valley Country Club

Founded 1966 — 10900 Pine Mills Road

The north side's club: Pine Valley was the country club of Fort Wayne's postwar northward growth — a club and a housing development built together, the houses rising around the fairways. The club's own present account dates its founding to 1966 and describes more than 160 acres on Pine Mills Road, and a brochure for the development survives from that same year, 1966, promising "golf at your doorstep." One course record gives the precise opening day: the course first opened for play on June 25, 1966. Some older club-derived profiles print 1976 as the founding year; the club's current history and the 1966 brochure both stand against it. The course's architect is likewise carried two ways in the record — Clyde Williams in the national course databases, Robert M. Lohmann in the Journal Gazette's course directory, which also dates the course's opening to 1968 under Lohmann's design. What the club claims for the ground since is a championship résumé in the state game: the Indiana State Open, the Indiana PGA Championship, and the 2001 Indiana Women's State Amateur, played on a course the club calls one of the finest in the Midwest, with an eight-lane, 25-meter competitive pool and four tennis courts beside it — and, by the club's own description, the standing of the only private golf and country club on the north side of Fort Wayne.

Sources:

1. Pine Valley Country Club, "About" (pinevalleycc.com) — founded 1966; more than 160 acres at 10900 Pine Mills Road.
2. ForeTee course record — the course first opened for play June 25, 1966; designed by Clyde Williams.
3. FortWayne.com (Journal Gazette) golf course directory — Pine Valley designed by Robert M. Lohmann, opened 1968.
4. Pine Valley Country Club profile as carried by Purdue University Fort Wayne Athletics (2019) and club directories — the Indiana State Open, Indiana PGA Championship, and 2001 Indiana Women's State Amateur; the eight-lane pool and four tennis courts; the "only private golf and country club on the north side" description.
5. Macke Development Corp., Pine Valley Country Club community brochure (1966) — the club and subdivision as first marketed.