A timeline of Chicago Golf Club milestones
Chicago Golf Club will play host to the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open starting Thursday. Here's a look at the club's long history:
1892: Club starts in Belmont (present-day Downers Grove) with nine holes laid out by Charles Blair Macdonald, called the "Father of American golf" by the World Golf Hall of Fame.
1893: State issues charter to Chicago Golf Club.
1893: The first 18-hole course in the country opens at the club's original site in Belmont. Elements still exist at the park district's Downers Grove Golf Club.
1894: Club purchases the Patrick family farm for an 18-hole course in Wheaton.
1894: Chicago Golf is one of five founding charter clubs of the Amateur Golf Association of the United States - later known as the USGA.
1897: Club hosts its first U.S. Open, with the championship trophy won by Joe Lloyd.
1903: Bessie Anthony wins the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at Chicago Golf.
1912: Original clubhouse burns down two weeks before the U.S. Amateur Championship.
1913: New clubhouse is designed by architect Jarvis Hunt; his design is largely untouched today.
1923: Play begins on redesigned golf course by architect Seth Raynor, a Macdonald protégé.
1928: Club hosts its first Walker Cup. U.S. Team Captain Bobby Jones claims his Grand Slam title two years later.
1981: Ben Crenshaw becomes a club member. He wins the Masters three years later and another green jacket in 1995.
1992: Club celebrates its centennial.
1992: John Curley wins the Western Golf Association Junior Amateur over a field that includes a 16-year-old Tiger Woods.
2005: Club welcomes the Walker Cup. The U.S. wins the team competition over Great Britain and Ireland.
2017: Club celebrates its 125th anniversary.
July 2018: Club hosts inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open.
Source: Chicago Golf Club