Glenview, IL
North Shore Country Club
North Shore’s first course opened near Sheridan Road in 1900. Road construction and rising land values encouraged a move, and in 1908 the Club leased ground in Kenilworth for nine holes designed by Tom Bendelow.1
- Location
- Glenview, IL
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72
- Original architect
- Charles Alison
- Club website
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North Shore Country Club history
Its later Glenview home occupied 170 acres of farmland. George Brown designed the clubhouse, while the course commission went to C. H. Alison of the Colt, MacKenzie and Alison partnership.1
The course
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Championships
Results and dates 8 editions
U.S. Amateur
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Marvin H. Ward
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Jay Sigel
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Western Amateur
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Ethan Tracy
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Kazuma Kobori
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BMW Championship
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Western Open
Abe Espinosa
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CDGA Amateur Championship
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Daniel Stringfellow
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Intercollegiate Golf Championship
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Charles Kocsis
U.S. Open
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John Goodman
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Sources and editorial notes9 references
Sources for this story
- North Shore | History North Shore Country Club
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Club mark source
- Chicago District Golf Association: 106th CDGA Amateur Championship The official 2026 schedule gives June 22-25 at North Shore Country Club. The organizer final report identifies the 106th edition, its June 25 final and both finalists. Earlier CDGA editions and historic name continuity are outside this bounded addition.
- Western Golf Association: 2025 Western Amateur Records and Statistics Guide WGA completed championship result; detailed guide PDF page64 and venue/summary table. 2024 guide summary misdatesJuly31-Aug4. Corrected2025 table/detail and contemporary WGA final report agreeAug1-5.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1983 result row. Jay Sigel d. Chris Perry, 8 and 7. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- NCAA: 2025 Division I Mens Golf Championships Records Book NCAA records PDF pages 5 and 9 identify this completed 1936 historical intercollegiate edition and separate team/individual champions. Princeton official 1936 results corroborate the site and its own team placing. This pre-1939 championship is not an NCAA title; dates and match margins remain unasserted.
- NCAA records and Princeton Athletics: 1930-1939 golf history NCAA PDF page 5 names the 1936 site; the official Princeton 1936 section identifies North Shore C.C., Chicago. Michigan Athletics independently names North Shore CC, Glenview, Illinois. Club-level precision only. Do not assign a modern Course, historical routing or round-specific use without independent physical-course evidence.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1933 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
- Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 93, 1928 chapter, plus summary page 3. Competition dates come from the actual year chapter; institutional venue and champion are independently cross-checked against the official publisher chronology.