Memphis Country Club

Memphis Country Club dates to 1905, when James Foulis laid out an original nine holes for the membership. About a decade later the club brought in Donald Ross to expand and rework the grounds into a full eighteen on a compact site of roughly 105 acres, and the course opened for play in 1917. Ross routed the front nine around the property's perimeter and folded the back nine into interior loops, building a demanding closing stretch that members have long nicknamed the triangle of terror. The club hosted the 1948 U.S. Women's Amateur, and in 2017 architect Kris Spence completed a careful restoration of Ross's greens and bunkering, guided by 1930s aerial imagery and ground-level photographs of each green site.