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Jun 17, 2005 | 3:06 pm

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Originally Posted by Efrem

IDL. And that's "Idlewild," named for the golf course on which part of it was originally built in 1942. It was renamed shortly after JFK died, on December 24, 1963.

But the golf course was named after the Indian's name for the marshland. hence Idelwild, which came first golf or indians.

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