Meadow Club

Meadow Club opened its front nine on September 16, 1927, with the back nine and clubhouse following in spring 1928, making it the first course Alister MacKenzie designed and built in the United States, in partnership with Robert Hunter. Set in a Marin County valley threaded by a small creek, the original layout was a nearly treeless, links-inspired canvas of wide fairways, multiple routes to the hole, and enormous, boldly contoured greens that rewarded imaginative approach and putting. Through the Depression, the war years, and mid-century plantings, many features shrank and non-native trees crowded the corridors, eroding MacKenzie's style. Between 1999 and 2010, architect Mike DeVries led the club's MacKenzie Signature Program, expanding greens and rebuilding bunkers so the course again reads much as its designers first imagined.