Long Grove, IL
Kemper Lakes Golf Club
Kemper Lakes opened in 1979 as an upscale public course on Kemper Insurance grounds. Its later institutional history changed the conditions of access: the Club became semi-private in 2003 and fully private in 2007.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1979
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
A public opening, then a private club
The Club’s timeline places Payne Stewart’s first major victory at its 1989 PGA Championship. The national tournament identity therefore developed during its public-course period, well before the final transition to private membership.
Championships
Results and dates 9 editions
SBC Senior Open
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Ameritech Senior Open
Walter Morgan
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Ameritech Senior Open
Gil Morgan
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Ameritech Senior Open
Hale Irwin
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Ameritech Senior Open
Hale Irwin
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Tom Kite
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Dana Quigley
PGA Championship
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Payne Stewart
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U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Vicki Goetze
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Women's PGA Championship
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KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Sung Hyun Park
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes8 references
Sources for this story
- Our History Kemper Lakes Golf Club
1979 public opening, 2003/2007 membership transitions and major winners.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Club mark source
- Kemper Lakes Golf Club golf page
- PGA of America: official KPMG Women’s PGA Championship history Official 2018 history record: June 28- July 01, 2018; Kemper Lakes Golf Club, Long Grove, Illinois; winner Sung Hyun Park, 278 (-10). Winner and round-score total agree with the organizer’s separate winners table.
- Kemper Lakes Golf Club: History of Champions The owner’s dated course championship register identifies the 2018 Women's PGA Championship at Kemper Lakes. The record is bound to the existing Kemper Lakes Course identity. Only the venue relationship changes; the register’s scores and results are not imported.
- PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PDF page 256, printed 5-38, 2001 entry: SBC Senior Open. Exact competitive-day boundaries remain unverified.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 9, 1992 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 71st playing, champion, Kemper Lakes GC site, and its year-page date span. The Guide table and Winners register independently use the plural Kemper Lakes golf-club form and control over the structured History record’s truncated Kemper Lake value.