March 28th, 2008
What golf course did Howard Hughes once land his airplane on so he could play golf with actress Katherine Hepburn?
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March 28th, 2008 at 5:11 am
I ma getting 2 different answers for this question. The movie say it is the Wilshire but the biography says it is another with which one I made my guess. Nothing is ever mentioned about playing Golf with Hepburn, the reason for landing.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Miss Hepburn Spelt her name Katharine….not Katherine
March 28th, 2008 at 5:26 am
We would suggest NOT using the movie as any kind of reliable source for this question.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:38 am
I DON’T UNFollowing his divorce in 1929, Hughes began courting some of Hollywood’s most famous young starlets, including Academy Award winner Katherine Hepburn. Hepburn shared his passion for the game of golf, often shooting in the 70s, and the pair played together often at Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles. Hepburn was fascinated by the daring but eccentric Hughes, who once interrupted a game of golf played by Hepburn and her pro at Wilshire Country Club by landing his single-engine Sikorsky amphibian plane on the eighth fairway and proceeding to play the back nine while course officials fumed.
DERSTAND BECAUSE THIS IS NOT ONE OF YOUR ANSWERS.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:46 am
The reason that Wilshire Country Club isn’t one of the answers is intentional because it is not accurate. The correct answer is one of our choices. Good luck!
March 28th, 2008 at 6:54 am
He crashed on one of the answers but not to play golf
March 28th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I found my answer on the internet, so it MUST be true. Although, no reference to the reason for the unusual landing.
Keri, my league is in need of one more player, interested?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
If you look on the website GolfClubAtlas.com for the Fenwick Golf Club in Connecticut, you will find reference to a similar story. This, and a nearly fatal landing of a prototype airplane near another golf course in California, make you wonder if golfing is a very safe sport
March 28th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Not sure what all of you are talking about - the Wall Street Journal has it this way: “(name of course) confected during the Roaring ’20s, is a golf Shangri-La in the hills overlooking (name of city). Howard Hughes, trying to impress Katharine Hepburn, once landed his plane on the eighth fairway. Bentleys and Maseratis vie for parking spots in the Italianate porte cochere, and players use an elevator to return to the clubhouse after finishing their rounds on the 18th hole. ”
By the way Ben - Keri will not join your league - we are all still waiting for the videos of her lessons as she learns to play. Golf Now - when do we get to see?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I think that the people doing the most whining here must search for about two minutes. Come on folks, give GN a little credit. They aren’t going to ask a question and not have the answer listed.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am
The answer is out there
Look for “golfs bizzarre billionaires” and learn of the October 1936 golf landing.
It was on the internet so it HAD to be true
This landing was for love - not a crash
March 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Today’s question should start with the word “Which” not “What,” and a couple of you guys *coughBen/Larrycough* need to get out more often. lol
March 28th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I have a suggestion, in the future if you doubt the selections, don’t put your options on the site. Let others find out for themselves.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Try looking on wsj.com. Be clever, it clearly gives the answer.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am
It took awhile but it’s out there, and no I won’t tell you, will have to find it own your own. “The rumble from a low-flying, single-engine plane made Country Club’s golf gentry squint in dismay toward the sun, their play interrupted, nerves frayed. But not Katharine Hepburn.
It was a Thursday in October 1936, and the Oscar-winning actress was enjoying a round with her instructor, Joe Novak. She dismissed the approaching plane with a flutter of her hand, as if waving away a mosquito. And she may have wished that she could wave that plane away, for piloting the two-seater was Howard Hughes–playboy, flyboy, movie mogul and Hepburn’s relentless suitor.”
March 31st, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I just read all the BS from Friday … I Googled Howard Hughes golf and got the answer…. stop all your whining and just play the game
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
Iosova, thank you for encouraging me to get out more (I try to convince my wife that I need to get out and play more as well) … perhaps I should spend more time being a grammar nazi on a free trivia website?