Oakland Golf Club

{{short description|Disbanded country club in Bayside, Queens, New York, USA}}

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| establishment = 1896

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| designer1 = Tom Bendelow (1897)
Walter Travis (1905)
Seth Raynor (1919)

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Oakland Golf Club is a former golf country club in Bayside, New York. The club was founded in 1896 and disbanded in 1952. The former site is now the site of the Queensboro Community College. It was the second oldest course in Queens, New York.

Its membership included H. P. Whitney, W. K. Vanderbilt, Walter Travis, and Bernard Baruch.

Tom Bendelow designed the first nine holes at the golf course in 1897 and Walter Travis designed the second nine holes in 1905.{{cite web |url=https://travissociety.com/directory-of-travis-golf-course-projects/ |title=Travis Course Projects Chronological |website=Walter J. Travis Society |access-date=May 19, 2025}} The course was re-designed by golf course designer, Seth Raynor, in 1919.{{cite web |url=https://thegolfarchitects.com/courses/oakland-golf-club/|title=Oakland Golf Club|website=The Golf Architects|access-date=April 28, 2025}} Roger Bullard was the architect for the golf course's clubhouse.{{cite web |url=https://americanaristocracy.com/people/roger-harrington-bullard|title=Roger Harrington Bullard|website=American Aristocracy|access-date=April 28, 2025}}{{cite book |last=Diedrich |first=Richard |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WONgTVIO_0C&pg=PA13 |title=The 19th Hole: Architecture of the Golf Clubhouse |location=Mulgrave, Australia |publisher=Images Publishing |isbn=9781864702231 |page=13 |access-date=April 29, 2025 |via=Google Books}}

The former clubhouse of the golf course now serves as the college's Oakland Building and includes an art gallery.{{cite news |last=Hirshon |first=Nicholas |date=December 23, 2008 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2008/12/23/new-art-for-qcc-gallery-site-earns-queensmark-plaque/ |title=New 'art' for QCC gallery: Site earns Queensmark plaque |work=New York Daily News |access-date=April 29, 2025}} Benjamin N. Cardozo High School was also built on the former site of the golf course.{{cite news |date=November 5, 1989 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-school-of-the-week-benjamin-n/171381353/ |title=School of the Week / Benjamin N. Cardozo H.S. |work=Newsday |access-date=April 29, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}