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Prairie Dunes Country Club

Golf course in Kansas, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7237860 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prairie Dunes Country Club is a golf course located just outside Hutchinson, Kansas. Frequently ranked among the best golf courses in the United States, it has hosted several United States Golf Association national championship tournaments.

The club was founded by Emerson Carey and his four sons in the mid-1930s. The course was funded and constructed, at least in part, by the Works Progress Administration under the New Deal. The course was designed by Perry Maxwell, and the first nine holes opened on September 13, 1937. Twenty years later in 1957, a second 9 holes were opened, designed by Press Maxwell (Perry's son).

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The public source identifies “Prairie Dunes Country Club” as golf course in Kansas, US. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Prairie, Dunes and Country.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Prairie, Dunes and Country providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Prairie Dunes Country Club”, the useful work is to connect “golf course in Kansas, US” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7237860. Authority coordinates are 38.091, -97.848. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prairie Dunes Country Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.