Est. 1900 · Charles H. Alison of Colt, MacKenzie & Alison (Glenview course, 1924)
Why we love this place
There is something special about a Golden Age Alison design hiding in the Chicago suburbs. We love North Shore for its quiet class, for the ghost of Johnny Goodman's amateur triumph, and for the way its strategic bunkering still asks smart questions of every golfer who plays it.
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About North Shore Country Club
North Shore Country Club was founded in 1900 and settled at its present Glenview site in the early 1920s, where English architect Charles H. Alison, of the celebrated firm Colt, MacKenzie & Alison, laid out the eighteen-hole course that opened in 1924. Alison's routing brought strategic bunkering and classic parkland shaping to Chicago's northern suburbs. The club quickly earned national standing: it hosted the 1933 U.S. Open, famously won by amateur Johnny Goodman, the last amateur to capture the championship, and followed with the 1939 U.S. Amateur. North Shore has remained a private club prized for its Golden Age pedigree and its rare American example of Alison's design work, and it continues to be regarded among the finest classic courses in the Chicago area.
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