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The article highlights the significant contributions of Nettie Hoyt and her daughter Beatrix to the history of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and Southampton. It also mentions the current state of the Shinnecock Windmill, which Nettie Hoyt played a role in building.
The walk from Shinnecock Hills Golf Club to the Shinnecock Windmill took 26 minutes and 7 seconds to make on this sunny Tuesday before the U.S. Open.
There were many obstacles and 'Restricted Area' signs along the way. Men in powder blue golf polos and women in floral summer dresses marched along the concrete path and over the pedestrian walkway, oblivious to the golf history they tread on. They don't know who Janet 'Nettie' Hoyt and her daughter, Beatrix, are. It's O.K. to admit, you don't either.
You can't write the history of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club or the USGA or golf in America without the Hoyts. You can't write the history of Southampton without the windmill. The windmill doesn't exist without Nettie. Janet Hoyt's obituary was published in the Hoyt Janet Ralston Chase on Nov. 19, at Thomasville, Ga.
Her late husband's last name comes first. Nearly half the words are dedicated to her father and husband. She had a complicated relationship with both. No mention of her being a founding member of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
Nothing about her art or making Southampton a destination for wealthy New Yorkers to summer. Nothing about the windmill. Such were the times. Women were considered inferior to men.
Their accomplishments often went overlooked. They were introduced in formal settings by their husband's name rather than their own. Nettie Hoyt, an original daughter of the late Chief Justice Chase, was a talented artist who trained in Dresden, Germany. She made her first impression on the sleepy hamlet by building the first mansion in Southampton, 'Windy Barn,' around 1880.
She purchased land under her own name and built a financially successful career as an early developer of the Shinnecock Hills. She founded the first open air art school in the United States in 1891, the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. Among those who financially backed it were Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. Nettie Hoyt knew if she could lure wealthy people to Southampton, they would fall in love with the natural landscape as she did.
That property values increased was a bonus to her enterprise. She was very independent, had a lot of drive, and went after what she wanted. While golf had grown as a leisure activity for affluent women of the time, there was no guarantee Shinnecock Hill Golf Club would allow women to play when it was incorporated in 1891. Nettie Hoyt helped ensure it would, purchasing one or possibly two of the initial shares under her name.
She advocated for women to play the game and played a role in Shinnecock building a nine-hole course for women. The Shinnecock Windmill sits on the highest point of a hill on Stony Brook's Southampton campus. It's been condemned since 2023. The sails were removed after that. Termites
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