Support Golf
Golf courses were being cut at Oglebay before the ink was dry on the City’s acceptance of Waddington Farm as Oglebay Park. Today, Oglebay Golf offers the largest First Tee Program in our region as well as many clinics, workshops and opportunities to learn and/or improve your game.
Your gift ensures that Oglebay’s youth golf initiatives will endure and that the life-lessons learned through the game continue.
History of Golf at Oglebay & Wheeling Park


1924 – Creation of Wheeling Park
1925 – Wheeling Park Golf Course Opens
1928 – City of Wheeling accepts Oglebay Park
1931 – Crispin Golf Course 1st Nine Open
1938 – Crispin Golf Course 2nd Nine Open
1953 – Speidel Family gives first of several land gifts from their JoBetty Farm (280 acres) to allow the creation of the Driving Range at Oglebay
1955 – Speidel Family gives park money to purchase adjacent 60 acres
1961 – Speidel Family gives park money to purchase additional 56 acres (for a combined total of just shy of 400 acres)
1962 – Par 3 Golf Course 7 Clubhouse added at Oglebay
1968 – W.E. Stone Clubhouse added at Wheeling Park
1970 – Robert Trent Jones designs first of two championship curses at Speidel
1971 – 1st Nine Holes of Robert Trent Jones Course Opened
1972 – 2nd Nine Holes of Robert Trent Jones Course Opened
1974 – First Annual LPGA Classic
1981 – Harry C. Hamm Clubhouse at Speidel Golf Course built
2000 – Arnold Palmer Designed (Klieves Golf Course) second of two championship courses at Speidel
2012 – Renovations of Jones Golf Course Completed
2013 – Bloch Golf Course Dedication at Wheeling Park
2017 – First Tee Program comes to Oglebay
2020 – August 21: Four-year-old Rocco Figaretti, one of the youngest golfers in the world, to make a hole-in-one at Oglebay Park’s Par 3 course