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
Results and dates 1 edition
U.S. Open
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Willie Anderson
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Sources and editorial notes3 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
- 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