Chicago Golf Club

Chicago Golf Club is one of the founding clubs of American golf, organized in 1892 by Charles Blair Macdonald. After early nine- and eighteen-hole layouts at Belmont in the Downers Grove area, the club moved to its permanent Wheaton grounds, where a Macdonald course opened in 1895. It was among the five clubs that formed the United States Golf Association in 1894. In the early 1920s Seth Raynor, Macdonald's longtime construction partner, rebuilt the course into essentially the design played today, opening in June 1923 and incorporating Macdonald and Raynor template holes such as the Redan, Biarritz, and Road hole. The club has hosted several U.S. Opens around the turn of the twentieth century and multiple U.S. Amateurs, and remains a private, tradition-rich retreat known for firm, wind-exposed prairie golf and its place at the very origins of the American game.