Tamarack Country Club hosts national tourney qualifiers

Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich is hosting senior golfers who will try on Wednesday to qualify for a spot in the 60th U.S. Senior Amateur Championship.

Tamarack is one of 51 golf courses around the nation selected to host qualifying rounds.

The tournament for players 55 years and older is at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach, Calif., Sept. 13-18.

Among the group of Tamarack-registered players are Dick Siderowf, who has won the British Amateur Championship twice and is a member of Century Golf Club in Purchase, N.Y.; and George Zahringer III, a member of Deepdale Golf Club on Long Island, who won the 2013 British Senior Amateur Championship, the 2002 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship, multiple Long Island amateur titles and four consecutive Met Amateur Championship titles.

Tamarack, which opened in 1929, was designed by Charles Banks and remains largely true to his layout via the recent work of architect Brian Silva, who expanded the greens and remade the tees. Silva”™s work also included redoing the fairway bunkers and adding 24 of them.

The club was featured in an April 7 Fairfield County Business Journal story for its corporate golf program. Last year it hosted six corporate golf days.

For more information, visit tamarackcountryclub.com.