Bellerive Country Club
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Town and Country, Missouri |
| Established | 1897 Founded 1960 New Course |
| Type | Private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Website | Bellerive Country Club |
| Designed by | Robert Trent Jones |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,547 yards (6,901 m) |
| Course rating | 75 |
Bellerive Country Club is a golf country club located in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. It is – with the Old Warson, Westwood, and St. Louis country clubs – considered one of the "big four" old-line elite St. Louis clubs. The course hosted the 2013 Senior PGA Championship, and will be hosting the 100th annual PGA Championship, which will be held in 2018.
The club opened in 1897 as The Field Club, founded by several St. Louis sportsmen who wanted a place for golf and other leisure activities. The course, which featured nine holes until another nine were added some years later, was built on land leased from the estate of War of 1812 war hero Daniel Bissell.
In 1910, the club moved to nearby Normandy and renamed the Bellerive Country Club after Louis St. Ange de Bellerive who in 1765 was the last French governor of Illinois Country. The clubhouse was built in the style of Georgian architecture. The first notable golf tournament held at Bellerive was the 1949 Western Amateur Championship. Four years later, the club hosted the PGA Tour's Western Open, won by E.J. "Dutch" Harrison.
In 1957, the club put its 125-acre (0.51 km2) Normandy site on the market for $1.3 million. At the same time the Normandy School District began discussing the need for establishing a junior college as an affordable alternative to the privately owned Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University. The Club lowered the price to $600,000 and the Normandy Residence Center opened in a renovated club house in 1960 with classes taught by the University of Missouri. The campus became the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 1963.
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