Given the overwhealming international popularity of golf today, it's hard to imagine early 1890's Waterbury.  Baseball, Tennis, and Bicycling were among the sports dominating the headlines.  A year-by-year inspection of Waterbury City Directories and other documents from that period show a Waterbury Lawn Tennis Club.  Interestingly, 1894 was the last year this organization appeared in the directory listings.  In 1899, a Waterbury Golf Club was listed and the names listed as club officers appear to overlap with those from earlier involvement in the Lawn Tennis Club.

President - Charles L. Holmes, Secretary - Charles R. Vaill, Treasurer - John H. Goss.  These were the first names associated with a golf organization in the city of Waterbury.  The 1900 City Directory still lists the organization as the Waterbury Golf Club.  President - N.R. Bronson, Secretary - Charles R. Vaill, Treasurer - W.P. Bryan.

The name of this club appears to have changed about 1902 to the Waterbury Golf Association and, later, to the Country Club of Waterbury, Inc.

Please check back in the future since research about the early history of Waterbury golf is ongoing.