Midlothian Country Club

Midlothian Country Club was formed in 1898 roughly eighteen miles southwest of Chicago, with the course laid out for members by Herbert J. Tweedie. The club quickly became a championship venue, staging the U.S. Women's Amateur in 1907 and, most famously, the 1914 U.S. Open, where twenty-one-year-old Walter Hagen edged amateur Chick Evans by a single stroke to claim the first major title of his celebrated career. Midlothian also hosted the Western Open three times, in 1901, 1969, and 1973, along with editions of the Women's Western Open and Amateur. In 2014 architect Ray Hearn led a restoration that removed excess trees and rebuilt bunkering, honoring the course's classic character. Set on roughly 208 acres of gently rolling parkland, the club remains a historic private layout whose place in the game was secured by Hagen's breakthrough victory.