Bellerive Country Club

Bellerive Country Club started out as a 9-hole course way back in 1897 and in those days the club was located in north St Louis and was called the St Louis Field Club. Thirteen years later the club changed its name to Bellerive after Louis St Ange De Bellerive, the last French commander to be stationed in North America.

The club decided to move to the west of St Louis as the membership outgrew the old 9-holer. Robert Trent Jones was commissioned to find the right location for a new 18-hole course and, in 1960, the new “Green Monster of Ladue Road” opened. In 1965, after being open for a mere five years, Bellerive became the youngest course to host the US Open and the “Black Knight”, Gary Player, won the event after an exciting playoff with Kel Nagle. Bellerive also hosted the 1992 USPGA Championship which Zimbabwean Nick Price won.

In 2006 a new renovated Bellerive opened after a Rees Jones makeover. It somehow seems appropriate that the “Open Doctor” son of original architect Robert Trent Jones was enlisted.

Bellerive is routed round a winding creek, which is a feature on nine holes. With large undulating greens and bold bunkering this is certainly a firm tournament favourite and aided by the club’s commitment to bring championship golf to St Louis, the 2008 BMW Championship was hosted at this centurion country club. Colombian Camilo Villegas shot a final-round 68 to win the BMW Championship by two strokes and claim his maiden win on the PGA Tour.

The 100th USPGA Championship returned to Bellerive Country Club in 2018 when Brooks Koepka won his second major of the 2018 season by holding off a resurgent Tiger Woods.

Koepka wins 100th PGA for second major in 2018

Behind the architectural curtain - Bellerive hosts 100th PGA Championship

Four holes to watch at Bellerive - 100th PGA Championship