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Sand Point Country Club is a private country club located in the View Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, that is noted for being the only country club in the city of Seattle to offer golf, swimming and tennis.

The club was founded in 1927 on a bluff overlooking Lake Washington and has a 18-hole golf course designed by one of the Northwest’s preeminent early-day golf architects, Francis L. James (designer of the Blue Lakes Country Club in Twin Falls, ID (http://www.bluelakescc.com/history.html); the Esmeralda Golf Course in Spokane, WA (http://www.worldgolf.com/courses/usa/washington/spokane/esmeralda-golf-course-public.html); the Centre Hills Country Club in State College, PA (http://www.centrehillscc.com/about.asp); the Tavistock Country Club in Haddonfield, NJ (http://dvindians.com/calendar.php?event_id=32); the Juniper Hills Country Club in Pocatello, ID (http://www.jhcc.us/about.html); the original University of Idaho Golf Course in Moscow, ID; the Eagles Pride Golf Course at Fort Lewis in Fort Lewis, WA (http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8922); and the original Palouse Ridge Golf Club at Washington State University in Spokane, WA (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19340303&id=uoUSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7_QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7374,663937). The course runs 6,040 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71, has a rating of 69.8, and a slope rating of 129 on blue grass. The club also has an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a wading pool, four outdoor and lighted tennis courts, a 24/7 fitness center, a full-service dining room & lounge, and banquet facilities. The club house, built in 1927 and expanded several times throughout the years (most recently in 2008), has panoramic views of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains. The club is located in a private housing development with the same name.

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Sand Point Country Club is located at 8333 55th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98115.