Beverly Country Club
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| Location | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Established | 1908 |
| Type | Private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Tournaments hosted | U.S. Amateur (1931); U.S. Senior Amateur (2009); Western Open (1910, 1963, 1967, 1970); Western Amateur (1930), (2014); Women's Western Open (1937, 1960, 1965); Illinois State Amateur Championship (2010) and Chicago Victory National Open (1943) |
| Website | Beverly Country Club |
| Designed by | Donald Ross |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7016 yards |
| Course rating | 72.1 (unofficial) |
| Course record | 63 - Doug Ghim (2014) |
The Beverly Country Club, located in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's historical cornerstones. The club was founded in 1908 and initially designed by George O'Neil, also the club's first professional golfer. Shortly after, well-known golf course architect Tom Bendelow helped fortify the layout. In 1918, the legendary architect Donald Ross created and executed a master plan to renovate the course. In 1919, Eddie Loos was serving as the head professional and paired with Jim Barnes to win a memorable match played against Jock Hutchison and Bob MacDonald.
Since, the Beverly Country Club has been a mainstay in American golfing circles. In 2002, the members of the Beverly Country Club adopted a plan to completely restore and rejuvenate the golf course. Under guidance of golf course architect and restorer Ron Prichard, the course has recaptured the design concepts which Ross himself included in his original work at the Beverly Country Club.
Beverly's mark on American golf was firmly made when club officials decided to ask legendary architect Donald Ross to create a master plan to renovate the course and bring it back to major championship standards. Over the course of nearly a decade, the entire Ross plan was adopted. In a fitting touch of déjà vu, a dedicated group of Beverly members recently led the club through a restoration of the golf course that reclaimed many of the Ross features that had been lost over the decades.
The genius of Ross's work lies in the routing of the golf course, in which no two consecutive holes run in the same direction, despite the fact that the course is laid out within a perfect rectangle that is hemmed in and bisected by three arterial streets and a railroad line. Ross made excellent use of the dominant geological feature of property: a prominent ridge that runs from behind the fifth green eastward through the promontory above the second fairway.
Five holes on the front nine are designed around this ridge, which had been part of the southern shore of prehistoric Lake Chicago, a forgotten body of water that deposited sand dunes along Beverly's back nine. Students of Ross's design “school” will recognize his mark throughout the course, particularly in the tee and green complexes.
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