The course where the first Metropolitan Open was held in 1905, Fox Hills Golf Club on Staten Island, is long gone. It has been 75 years since the tournament — won by nine players who were eventually inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame — regularly attracted the sport’s best.
But the Met Open endures: It will be contested this week over 54 holes at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., in a celebration of the tournament’s rich history as one of the oldest in the United States.
The 100th edition of the event — once a marquee tour stop and still one of the country’s strongest regional competitions — will begin Tuesday morning with a field of 138 on Winged Foot’s East Course, designed by A.