Club wanted 'younger direction,' gets court instead.

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Llanerch Country Club in Havertown faces an EEOC lawsuit after it laid off a 59-year-old groundskeeper, allegedly replacing him with younger workers.

According to the complaint, the groundskeeper was the oldest member of the groundskeeping crew at the country club, located in the tony suburbs of Philadelphia. He had worked there since 2004 with no blemishes on his employment record.

In December 2016, the club laid him off for the winter, but later informed him it wanted to "take the staff in a younger direction." He was told he would not be rehired in the spring. The country club then...