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Founded in 1892, Chicago Golf Club is one of America’s most exclusive clubs and today it is still intensely private.

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When you arrive at Shoreacres (after your mandatory invite) you can almost feel a throwback in time to the 1920s as you approach the David Alder clubhouse.

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The classic old course at the Old Elm Club was designed by Harry Colt in 1913 and was constructed by Ross from plans drawn up by Colt. Colt was paid $100 per day and Ross $20 per day for their respective endeavors.

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Medinah Country Club was originally founded in the Roaring Twenties and the objective was to create the finest country club in America.

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Beverly Country Club is bounded on all sides by Windy City suburbs and is routed in two rectangular parcels, with the front nine holes lying to the north of 87th Street and the back nine laid out on the other side...

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Skokie Country Club played host to the 1922 US Open, the first at which tickets were sold. A record number of spectators witnessed a spectacular win by 20-year-old Gene Sarazen.

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Butler National Golf Club was founded by multi-millionaire Paul Butler, a local businessman, and it lies to the west of the Windy City in the Oak Brook suburb of Chicago.

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Laid out on a 209-acre tract of gently undulating land, the course at Conway Farms Golf Club is a recently lengthened Tom Fazio design from 1991 and host venue for the 2013 BMW Championship.

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Apart from the North course, Olympia Fields Country Club owns the world’s largest clubhouse, which took two years to build and cost a whopping $1.3 million way back in 1925.

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A few keen golfers, who wanted their own private male-only members club with an unpretentious and casual atmosphere, set up Black Sheep Golf Club in 1999.

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The 18-hole layout at Flossmoor Country Club is a Herbert Tweedie design from 1900 then modified by Harry Collis before the club hosted the USPGA in 1920 and the US Amateur in 1923.

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Meacham Creek comes into play at a number of holes on the No.1 course at Medinah Country Club, most notably at the long par five 9th, once the closing hole before the nines were switched.

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A Steve Smyers upgrade in 2008 – when he reworked greens and bunkers, as well as adding extra yardage to the layout – sharpened the teeth of the South course at Olympia Fields Country Club, but his work may be erased by a new master plan...

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The all-male membership at Bob O’Link Golf Club plays on a course designed by Donald Ross in 1916 and completely renovated eight years later by C.H. Alison when additional land became available.

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Founded in 1900, North Shore Country Club moved to its current Glenview location in 1924 when C.H. Alison designed the new 18-hole layout. The following decade, the course was duly recognised when it was selected to host both the US Open (1933) and US Amateur (1939).

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There are four courses at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club but the one most golfers want to play is the world-renowned No.4 course, otherwise known as "Dubsdread".

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Site of the US Amateur Championships in 1956, the classic old parkland golf course at the Knollwood Club is a CH Alison layout from 1924 that has been altered in more recent times by Larry and Roger Packard.

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The course at Onwentsia Club is a late 19th century layout, host to the 1906 US Open, the 1899 US Amateur and 1915 US Women’s Amateur, which extends nowadays to a modest 6,645 yards from the tips.

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Canyata Golf Club (pronounced can-yay-tuh) was originally intended to be a 3-hole course, comprising a par three, four and five on part of the Forsythe family farm, but architect Michael Benkusky had other ideas.

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William Flynn redesigned the original Herbert Tweedie course at Glen View Club in 1922 and it served the members for almost eighty years before Davis Esler lovingly restored it in 1999.

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Rich Harvest Farms is a hilly course where a lake, lagoons and a creek are part of the setup. It is configured in a traditional nine out and nine back formation...

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Inaugurated in 1896, Exmoor Country Club was a founding member of the Western Golf Association in 1899. One of the early clubs in the Chicago area, today’s Exmoor course is largely a 1915 Donald Ross design.

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Illinois native, DA Weibring, laid out the course at TPC Deere Run on a former Arabian horse ranch and it has been the venue for the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic since 2000.

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Bull Valley Golf Club is the reality of the dreams of three visionaries and is perhaps the most challenging and sensually stimulating course in the Midwest.

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Designed by Bob Lohmann, the Merit Club's course was only eight years old when Australian Karrie Webb won the U.S. Women’s Open here in 2000.

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The No.2 course at Medinah Country Club reopened in 2017 after a Rees Jones restoration which focused on greens and bunkers, using aerial photographs from 1938 to establish their original size, shape and location.

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Midlothian Country Club was formed in 1898 and the course was laid out for the members by Herbert J. Tweedie​. The club soon took golfing center stage, hosting the US Women’s Amateur in 1907 and the US Open in 1914, won by Walter Hagen.

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Evanston Golf Club’s course made its appearance on the Chicago golf scene in 1917. Some eighty years later, a sympathetic renovation by Ron Prichard breathed new life into the old Donald Ross-designed layout.

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Established in 1920, the William Langford and Theodore Moreau-designed course at Butterfield Country Club features three 9-hole circuits – Red, White and Blue – within a wonderful 27-hole golf complex.

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Jack Nicklaus routed The Club at Wynstone fairways around a substantial residential development at the end of the 1980s, wrapping many of the holes around Lake Sheree.

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The Arthur Hills-designed course at Chicago Highlands Club is one of the many sporting amenities available at the first family-friendly country club to open in the western suburbs of the Windy City in more than 80 years.

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Originally designed by Larry Packard for the Spartan Meadows Golf Club in 1971, the course was subsequently redesigned for Highlands of Elgin by Keith Foster in 2003.

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The Prairie and Forest nines combine to form the prime 18-hole layout at the Ivanhoe Club but the longer Marsh nine should not be easily dismissed at this fantastic 27-hole venue.

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A private club since 2003, Kemper Lakes Golf Club hosted the PGA Championship in 1989 (won by Payne Stewart) and US Women’s Amateur in 1992 (won by Vicki Goetze), back in the days when it was still a public facility.

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Bob Goalby’s son Kye, who has worked on a number of projects around the world with Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design, led St Clair Country Club's $1.6m course renovation project over the winter of 2013.

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The layout at Ruth Lake Country Club is either a David Foulis or William Langford and Theodore Moreau design that dates back to the early 1920s. The layout has been altered since then, of course, "by a cadre of Midwestern architects".

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Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed the layout at ThunderHawk Golf Club, carving many of the fairways out of a forest preserve. This was the first public course in Illinois to achieve Audubon Signature certification status.

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Established in 1990 in Orland Park, an hour’s drive out from Chicago’s city center, Crystal Tree Golf & Country Club offers its members a number of recreational amenities as well as a Robert Trent Jones II-designed par 72 golf course...

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Laid out on the site of the old Glenview Naval Air Station, the fairways at The Glen Club were fashioned by Tom Fazio, who shifted almost two and a half million cubic yards of earth during construction.

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Now open to the public, Ravisloe Country Club is a classic re-designed Donald Ross layout and one of the best public access experiences in the Chicago area.

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Lightly bunkered and with only one water hazard in play, the course at Kankakee Elks Country Club is a mid-1920s William Langford and Theodore Moreau layout which was carved out of forested terrain on the banks of the Kankakee River.

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Keith Foster designed the Shepherd’s Crook golf course in 1999. Located in the Zion Park District, north of Chicago, the links-like layout harks back to Golden Age designs and was fashioned with classic strategy in mind.

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Designed by Michael Hurdzan, the Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo is named after Ann Nobbe, the daughter of the owners, who tragically died in an automobile accident three years before the public pay and play facility opened in 1993.

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Designed as a links-like layout, the course at Gateway National Golf Links is a Keith Foster design which is routed through a landscape of native grasses and tranquil wetland areas just a short distance away from St Louis city center.

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The Preserve at Oak Meadows in Addison re-opened in 2017 after a multi-million dollar redesign by Greg Martin of Rich Harvest Farms fame, where the main objective of the project was the repositioning of holes on higher ground, away from the flood-prone waters of Salt Creek.

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Located 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, the course at Barrington Hills Country Club is a George O’Neil design that dates back to 1921. Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design has consulted here for a number of years now.

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Founded as Briergate Country Club in 1921, when C. H. Alison set out the original golf course, the club was renamed as Briarwood Country Club in 1958. The Illinois Open was held here for the first time in more than fifty years in 2017.

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William Watson laid out the original course at Westmoreland Country Club in 1912. The unusual pairing of William Langford and A.W. Tillinghast redesigned the layout ten years later before Patty Berg claimed the 1938 U.S. Women's Amateur here.

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The parkland golf course at Cantigny is laid out in three 9-hole circuits that present all manner of challenges as they wind their way in and out of wooded areas, past a dozen lakes and a couple of creeks...

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In 1920, twenty-two years after its formation, Hinsdale Golf Club invited David Foulis to transform the penal design of its original course into one of the best strategic layouts in the Chicago area – a process that took twenty years.

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Dating back to its inception in 1914, the old course at Indian Hill Golf Club is a Donald Ross layout that remains largely intact, despite many modifications made down the years.

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Featuring a handful of formidable par fives, the 18-hole layout at Prairie Landing Golf Club is a Robert Trent Jones Junior course of some renown within the West Chicago area.

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Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa offers 63 golf holes at four different courses, all of which were built by architect Roger Packard. The General, a co-design with Andy North, was the final layout to be unveiled here in 1997, applying the old maxim of saving the best until last.

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Originally set out by William Diddel in 1923, the course at Sunset Ridge Country Club was renovated by Rick Jacobson in 2004. The now defunct Western Open, one of the PGA Tour’s oldest tournaments, was held here in 1972.

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Donald Ross laid out the Oak Park Country Club course in 1914, the year the club was founded, returning six years later to make revisions. Rick Jacobson renovated the layout in 2008, installing new bunkers and expanding greens.

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The 18-hole layout at Stonewall Orchard Golf Club in Grayslake is a late 1990s Arthur Hills design which is a well-respected test of golf, having hosted both US Open Sectional Qualifying and PGA Championship Qualifying.

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WeaverRidge Golf Club was created in the late 1990s making the very best use of a landscape formed thousands of years ago by retreating glacial action.

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Mount Prospect Golf Club lies within Mt. Prospect Park District, located thirty-five miles northwest of Chicago. David Esler renovated this public layout in 2017, adding five new holes as well as installing Redan, Eden and Punchbowl template holes.

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The course at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club is a Pete Dye/PB Dye co-design that brings water hazards into play at sixteen of the holes on the scorecard, including all nine on the inward half.

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The course at Idlewild Country Club hosted the 1912 Western Open, only four years after the club’s formation. Featuring five par three holes and five par fives, the layout was subsequently renovated during the Depression by William Langford.

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Unveiled in 1998, the course at Mistwood Golf Club was recently renovated by original architect Ray Hearn. Fairways are routed around a 65-acre lake with water – in the form of creeks, wetlands and ponds – coming into play at every hole.

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A mid-1980s Joe Lee and Rocky Roquemore creation superimposed over a 1929 William Flynn layout, Pine Meadow Golf Club is now a thoroughly modern course that sports no fewer than seven sets of tees, which range from 7,238 to 5,272 yards.

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The Port course at Harborside International Golf Center opened for public play in 1995, with the Starboard course following a year later. Both 18-layouts are Dick Nugent designs, constructed in the style of traditional links courses.

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The sporting centrepiece of a 616-acre residential community, the 18-hole public course at Bowes Creek Country Club is a Rick Jacobson design that first opened for daily fee play in 2008.

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Featuring bentgrass fairways and greens, the course at Blackstone Golf Club in Marengo weaves its way past twenty-six acres of wetlands. All told, thirteen holes come into direct contact with these beautiful, yet unnerving hazards.

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The Blue and White nines at Northmoor Country Club comprise the course of first choice at this 27-hole facility where Michael Hurdzan recently renovated the bunkers using Better Billy Bunker liner with Black Beauty fescue edging.

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Located approximately 8 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, La Grange Country Club was established in 1899 and moved to its present location in 1913 to a Tom Bendelow and William Langford-designed 18-hole course with a routing of outer and inner nines.

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The layout at Stonebridge Country Club is a late-1980s Tom Fazio design set at the heart of a residential development with a professional tournament pedigree, hosting the PGA Ameritech Senior Open from 1991 to 1995 then the LPGA Kellogg-Keebler Classic from 2002 to 2004.

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Designed by Dick Nugent in the mid-1990s, the Port course at the 36-hole Harborside International Golf Center is a links-style layout set close to Lake Calumet, where all the bunkers were renovated by Lohmann Golf Design in 2017.

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Founded as E.G. Golf Club in 1924, Larry Packard and Brent Wadsworth added nine new holes to Sunset Hills Country Club’s golf offering in 1957. The father and son duo of Gary and Ron Kern built six new holes in 1990 before Keith Foster renovated the hill and valley route in 1997.