Belmont Golf Club (Downers Grove, Illinois)

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Established on this site in 1892 as the original Chicago Golf Club, when Charles Blair MacDonald persuaded thirty of his Chicago Club colleagues to contribute ten dollars each to design and construct a nine-hole golf course, America’s first golf course west of the Allegheny Mountains. The club was also one of the five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association (USGA).

By 1895, Club members had become so taken with the sport that they decided to build a new eighteen-hole golf course in nearby Wheaton. The distinguished Chicago Golf Club is still in existence there today. Belmont Golf Club has undergone design changes over the years, however, much of the original course remains including holes 2, 4, 7, 8, and 9.

Phone: (630) 963-1306
www.belmontgolfclub.org/