Eugene Country Club

Eugene Country Club traces its founding to 1899 and relocated to its present ground on the north side of the Willamette River in the 1920s, after purchasing farmland dotted with orchards and forest. H. Chandler Egan, the 1904 and 1905 U.S. Amateur champion turned architect, laid out an 18-hole course that opened for play in 1925. Egan's design endured until 1967, when Robert Trent Jones Sr. undertook an unusual and celebrated project: he reversed the entire routing, turning former greens into tee areas and tees into greens so that Egan's opening hole became the closing hole. Only a couple of holes were substantially rerouted; Jones widened corridors, enlarged greens, and reworked the bunkering. The result is a rare golf lineage carrying the fingerprints of two of the game's most influential design minds.