Olympia Fields Country Club


Olympia Fields Country Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, about south of The Loop.
It contains two eighteen-hole courses, North and 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. Olympia Fields is one of the few private clubs in the U.S. with multiple courses ranked, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

The club was founded in 1915. The North Course was designed by two-time British Open champion Willie Park, Jnr, and was lengthened prior to hosting the U.S. Open in 2003. It features some significant 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. Course No. 4 became the North Course, and the remaining holes from the other three courses were reconfigured to make the South Course.
Olympia Fields has hosted four major championships: two U.S. Opens and two PGA Championships. It has also been the site of the U.S. Senior Open and the U.S. Amateur ; the Women's PGA Championship is scheduled for mid-2017. In addition, the Western Open on the PGA Tour was played at the club
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, four-faced clock tower that has become the trademark of the club. The western boundary of the property is bordered by a commuter rail line, Metra Electric District, and its Olympia Fields station is just west of the clubhouse; the line was previously the Illinois Central Railroad.
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.

Tournaments hosted

Major championships

Includes amateur and professional major championships
YearTournamentChampionWinning
score		Winner's
share
1925PGA Championship Walter Hagen6 & 5500
1928U.S. Open Johnny Farrell 294 500
1961PGA Championship Jerry Barber 277 11,000
1997U.S. Senior Open Graham Marsh280 232,500
2003U.S. Open Jim Furyk272 1,080,000
2015U.S. Amateur Bryson Dechambeau7 & 6n/a
2017Women's PGA Championship Danielle Kang271 525,000

The Western Open was historically an important event in golf, a near-major.
YearTournamentWinnerWinning
score		Winner's
share 		Notes
1920Western Open Jock Hutchison296
1927Western Open Walter Hagen281
1933Western Open Macdonald Smith282500
1968Western Open Jack Nicklaus273 26,000
1971Western Open Bruce Crampton279 30,000

Scorecards

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