Golf, IL
Glen View Club
Northwestern professor William Caldwell proposed a country retreat to a group of businessmen in February 1897. Glen View Golf & Polo Club incorporated the following month. Its property came from the Dewes family, who had settled the land earlier in the nineteenth century.1
- Location
- Golf, IL
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72
- Original architect
- Richard Leslie
- Club website
- Visit website
A retreat shaped by Chicago designers
Daniel Burnham served on the site-selection committee and brought landscape architect O. C. Simonds into the project. Member William Holabird designed the first clubhouse, later lost to fire in 1921. The grounds and buildings therefore drew on Chicago’s architectural community as well as its golfers.1
The course
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Championships
- 2021 Western AmateurGlen View Club
- 1905 Western AmateurGlen View Club
- 1904 U.S. OpenGlen View Club
- 1902 U.S. AmateurGlen View Club
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Results and dates 6 editions
Western Amateur
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David Forgan
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H. Chandler Egan
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Michael Thorbjornsen
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BMW Championship
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Western Open
Willie Smith
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U.S. Amateur
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Louis N. James
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U.S. Open
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Willie Anderson
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Sources and editorial notes6 references
Sources for this story
- Brief History of Glen View Club Glen View Club
Caldwell, Dewes land, Burnham/Simonds/Holabird, course design and championships.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Western Golf Association: 2025 Western Amateur Records and Statistics Guide WGA completed championship result; detailed guide PDF page60 and venue/summary table.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1904 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.
- USGA championship host record Dated USGA host wording Glen View Club, Golf, Ill. is explicitly reconciled to Glen View Club in Golf, IL. The dated register identifies the Club. A continuing physical Course identity is not inferred from a single stored Course or an unqualified venue name. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 8, 1902 result row. Louis N. James d. Eben M. Byers, 4 and 2. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 69, 1899 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.