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Creve Coeur, MO
Bellerive Country Club
Bellerive’s history includes more than one home. The institution began with a nine-hole course in north St. Louis in 1897, moved to a Robert Foulis design in Normandy in 1910, and remained there for half a century.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1960
- Original architect
- Robert Trent Jones
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
Bellerive Country Club history
Hord Hardin and Clark Gamble led the later move west. The new course opened in 1960, and five years later Gary Player won its U.S. Open in a playoff against Kel Nagle. The victory completed Player’s career Grand Slam.
Championships
Results and dates 10 editions
BMW Championship
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Western Open
Dutch Harrison
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Camilo Villegas
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Wyndham Clark
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PGA Championship
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Nick Price
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Brooks Koepka
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U.S. Mid-Amateur
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Jim Holtgrieve
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Danny Green
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U.S. Open
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Gary Player
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U.S. Senior Open
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Peter Jacobsen
Western Amateur
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Frank Stranahan
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes10 references
Sources for this story
- Bellerive | Our Story Bellerive Country Club
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources9 references
- BMW Group: 2026 championship winning release Official PGA TOUR event overview dates, BMW winning release and official championship champion table. Competition dates come from the actual year chapter; institutional venue and champion are independently cross-checked against the official publisher chronology.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 100th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- Bellerive Country Club: Our Story The Club’s history traces its present course from the 1960 move and identifies the 2018 PGA Championship in that course’s subsequent tournament history. This binds the dated event to the existing 1960 Bellerive Course identity, preserving later renovations without creating another course.
- Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 171, 2008 chapter, plus summary page 9. Competition dates come from the actual year chapter; institutional venue and champion are independently cross-checked against the official publisher chronology.
- PGA Tour: U.S. Senior Open verified results PGA Tour 2015 Champions media guide, PDF page 213 / printed page 212, year row establishes a completed championship and named winner. No event dates are inferred from advertised schedules. Host-club evidence: www.usga.org.
- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1999 result row. Completed championship, finalists and final match margin are recorded. Match-play margin is not a stroke total. Actual date range transcribed from the retrospective championship results.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1965 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 Western Amateur Records and Statistics Guide WGA completed championship result; detailed guide PDF page158 and venue/summary table.