Sequoyah Country Club is an 18 hole, private equity, member-owned golf course and country club in Oakland, California. Founded in 1913, it hosted the Oakland Open from 1938 to 1944 – one of the premier professional golf tournaments on the Pacific coast, which featured prominently in the early golfing careers of Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, and others.
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The Oakland Open was a golf tournament in California on the PGA Tour from 1937 to 1944. It was played in Oakland at the Claremont Country Club in 1937 and at the Sequoyah Country Club from 1938 to 1944.
At age 25, Ben Hogan was nearly broke and on the verge of quitting the tour in early 1938; he finished sixth at the Oakland Open in late January and continued.
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Sequoyah Heights is an affluent, secluded neighborhood in the Oakland Hills, in Oakland, California. The neighborhood has several architecturally prominent 1920s and 1930s houses, surrounding the Sequoyah Country Club and golf course. It overlooks the Interstate 580 above the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, and offers views of San Francisco.
It is a smaller part of the Oak Knoll neighborhood that runs alongside the southeastern part of the Oakland hills. The neighborhood borders San Leandro.
Sequoyah Heights is one of East Oakland's safer and more well-to-do neighborhoods, and features a religious preschool. Sequoyah Heights neighbors the Grass Valley neighborhood, home of the Oakland Zoo, the Seminary neighborhood and the site of the now closed Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
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Naval Hospital Oakland, also known as Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, was a U.S. naval hospital located in Oakland, California that opened during World War II and closed in 1996 as part of the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure program. The 167-acre site is bordered on three sides by Mountain Boulevard and Keller Avenue in the city's Oak Knoll section; its map coordinates are .
Oak Knoll hospital was built during World War II to treat American military personnel wounded in the Pacific theater. In later years, it also treated those wounded in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The site was previously a golf course and country club that had closed during the Great Depression.
Construction on a large main hospital building began in 1965, and it opened in 1968. The base was officially closed in 1996 in a Navy ceremony.
The main hospital building was imploded on April 8, 2011.
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Joseph Knowland State Arboretum and Park is a park located in the Grass Valley neighborhood of Oakland, California. It was formerly a state park, and is now the property of the City of Oakland. The Oakland Zoo occupies the developed western lowlands of the park, just off I-580.
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Anthony Chabot Regional Park is a regional park in Alameda County, California, United States. It is part of the East Bay Regional Park District system, and covers 5,067 acres in the San Leandro Hills adjacent to Oakland, San Leandro and Castro Valley. Popular activities include hiking, cycling and horseback riding. A gun range operated by the Chabot Gun Club was shut down in 2016, following complaints about pollution.
The terrain of the park is often steep, consisting of grasslands, chaparral, and eucalyptus groves.