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Golf and Travel:   Metro Chicago Illinois

Cog Hill G.C.The Cog Hill Golf Club is a public golf complex located 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Chicago. Cog Hill hosts the PGA Tour's BMW Championship from 2009 to 2011 on its championship course Dubsdread.Three brothers moved to the Chicago area in 1920. John W., Martin J., and Bert Coghill bought the McLaughlin farm on the east side of Lemont Illinois in 1926 to build a golf club. They then hired David McIntosh, who owned Oak Hills, to build them a golf course. Cog Hill Course #1 open July 4th weekend in 1927. Reservations for golf were taken at the Boston Store, which, at that time, was one of the downtown Chicago's leading department stores. The Chicago & Joliet Electric streetcar ran from Chicago to Lemont giving golfers easy access for 25 cents. The club expanded in 1929 when the three brothers bought another 160 acres (0.65 km2) from the Reed Family on the east side of Parker Road. Course #2 was designed and built by David McIntosh and Bert Coghill. It was opened in the fall of 1929, within days of Wall Street Crash of 1929. Even during the tough twelve years of the depression Cog Hill was able to prosper. In 1951, Joe Jemsek bought Cog Hill. Course #3 was added in 1963 and Dubsdread was completed in 1964. The Western Golf Association awarded the Western Open to Cog Hill in 1991. It changed its name to the BMW Championship in 2007. (Article sourced here from Wikipedia.com)

 

Golf course listings information websites and play info for Metro Chicago Illinois:

Northwest
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South:
Southwest West  
abbeysprings.com
bigrungolf.com Addison  
destinationkohler.com
Aspen Ridge G.C.
blackberryoaks.com
Arrowhead  
bolingbrookgolfclub.com blisscreek
 
blackstonegc.com arboretumgolf.com Burnam Woods
Broughton Ridge G.C. bloomingdale  
bonniedundeegc.com Arlington Lakes cardinalcreekgolf.com Broken Arrow G.C. cantignygolf  
Boone Creek Golf Club forestpreservegolf.com
chparkdistrict.net
carillongolf.com carriagegreens  
Brae_Loch G.C.
bittersweetgolf.com
chparkdistrict.net cinderridge.com Columbus  
carycountryclub.com golfthebog.com
coyoterungolf.com coghillgolf.com
countrylakes  
chaletgolf.com waukegangolf.org
deercreekgolfcourse.com
foxbendgolfcourse.com
Downers Grove
 
chapelhillgolf.com buffalogrovegolf.com alsipparks.org
golfgleneagles.com
eaglewood  
wisconsindellsgolf.com forestpreservegolf.com
forestpreservegolf.com
Graystone Golf Links flaggcreek
 
crystalwoodsgc.com countryside golf club glenwoodiegolf.com
heritagebluffs.com
Fox Valley  
eagleridge.com
craneslandinggolf.com
Golf Vista Estates hickoryhillscntryclub.com
freshmeadow  
foxlakecc.net
deerfield golfclub greengardencc.com Inwood Golf Course glendalelakes  
foxrungolflinks.com deer path golf course griffithgolfcenter.com
Mid Iron Club Green Meadows
 
foxfordhillsgolfclub.com
Edgebrook golf course
harborsideinternational.com
mistwoodgolf.net hughescreek  
golfclubofil.com erinhills.com Jackson Park G.C. naperbrookgolfcourse.org
forestpreserve
 
Hickory Knoll foss park golf course Joe Louis Champ G.C.
nettlecreek.com
golfindianlakes  
Highland Woods
frank govern memorial
Kankakee Elks C.C.
oakhills.com kleincreek  
highlandsofelgin.com genevanationalresort.com lincolnoaksgolfcourse.com oldoakgolf.com
addisonpark  
hilldalegolf.com theglenclub.com
Longwood Country Club paloscountryclub.com
dupagegolf  
countrylakesgolfclub.com
glencoegolfclub.com lostmarshgolf.com paloshillsweb.org
forestpreserve  
makraygolf.com Glenview National
mantenogolf.com lockportpark.org
millcreek
 
marengoridgegolfclub.com Glenview Park Marquette Park G.C.
ruffledfeathersgc.com oak brook G.C.  
northernbayresort.com Golf Center Des Plaines
meadowsgc.com
golfsanctuary.com
Oak Meadows  
oakgrovegolfcourse.com
grandgenevaresort.com
Minne Monesse G.C.
silverlakecc.com
orchardvalley  
palatinehills.org
Grayslake G.C.
oakspringsgolfclub.com watersedgegolf.com pheasantrun  
pinecrestgc.com
Greenshire G.C.
odysseycountryclub.com wedgewoodgc.com
phillipspark
 
Pistakee Country Club hawksviewgolfclub.com palmiragolf.com
willowrungolf.net
Pottawatamie
 
plumtreegolf.com heatherridge.org ravisloecountryclub.com
woodbinegolf.com prairielanding
 
poplarcreekcc.com highlandparkcc.com forestpreservegolf.com woodruffgc.com riverbendgolf  
prairieisle.com
lakebluffgolfclub.com
south shore chicago
  standrewsgc  
randalloaksgc.com Lake Park G.C.
south shore momence
  saltcreekgolf  
redtailgolf.com lakelawnresort.com swanlakeresort.com
  settlershill  
renwoodgolf.com midlaneresort.com
Tuckaway   sevenbridges  
rollingknollscc.com Mt. Prospect G.C. Turkey Creek G.C.
  napervilleparks
 
parkfun.com Nichol Knoll G.C. universitygolfclub.com   golfsugarcreek  
stonewallorchard.com nippersinkresort.com whitehawkcountryclub.com
  tamarackgc  
streamwood.org oldorchardcc.com whitemountaingolfpark.com
  tannafarms  
trappersturn.com
pinemeadowgc.com
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North Courses:
Twin Lakes
 
saltcreekpd.com Rob Roy G.C. Sunset Valley
villagegreengolfclub.com valleygreen
 
villaolivia.com
Robert A. Black G.C. Sydney Marovitz Weber Park
villagegreens
 
parkfun.com shepherdscrook.org Tam O'Shanter
whitedeergolf.com
villagelinks
 
whispercreekgolf.com
shilohparkgolf.com Thunderhawk
willowhillgolf.com
whitepines
 
wildrockgolf.com
sportsmansgolf.com chevychasecountryclub.com
golfwilmette.com
willowcrest
 
  Steeple Chase G.C. vernonhillsgolf.com
winnetkagolfclub.com zigfieldtroy  
     

Olympia Fields G.C.Olympia Fields G.C.

Olympia Fields Country Club is a golf club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago about twenty five miles south of The Loop. It is a private club with two eighteen hole courses, the North and the South. The North Course is considered one of the top three courses in the Chicago area and is generally ranked in the top 50 courses in the United States. The South Course is regularly ranked in the top ten in Illinois. The club was founded in 1915. The North Course was designed by twice British Open champion Willie Park, Jnr, and was lengthened prior to hosting the 2003 U.S. Open. It features big elevation changes, a meandering creek and hundreds of native oak trees. At one time it was one of four courses at the club, but after the club fell into financial difficulties during World War II, it was forced to sell off half of its land. The remaining holes from the other three courses were reconfigured to make the South Course. Olympia Fields has hosted four major championships in total, two U.S. Opens, 1928 and 2003, and two PGA Championships, 1925 and 1961. Other events held at Olympia Fields include five Western Opens, and the 1997 U.S. Senior Open. Olympia Fields is famous for its enormous clubhouse, which was finished in 1925 at a cost of $1.3 million. It is a half timbered English Tudor style building with an eighty-foot high, four-faced clock tower that has become the trademark of the club. In 2005, the club began a $9.5 million renovation project to improve the practice facilities, revamp some of the bunkers, and make other improvements. The club is on the National Register of Historic Places. (Article sourced here from Wikipedia.com)