Olympia Fields, IL

Olympia Fields Country Club

Olympia Fields’ present course names retain traces of a larger numbered system. The South was originally No. 1; the North was No. 4. Their architects, Tom Bendelow and Willie Park Jr., gave the Club distinct golfing inheritances.¹

Location: Olympia Fields, IL
Courses: 2 courses
Club website: Visit website

Two surviving identities from a numbered course system

Its competitive history spans professional and amateur golf. Danielle Kang won the 2017 Women’s PGA Championship here, and the 2020 BMW Championship ended with Jon Rahm defeating Dustin Johnson in a playoff.¹

The North Course hosted the 2015 U.S. Amateur final. Bryson DeChambeau defeated Derek Bard 7 and 6.²

Courses

Follow each course for its scorecard, design history, and sources.

CourseNorth18 holes · par 70 · View course record

CourseSouth18 holes · par 72 · View course record

Championships

Results and dates 16 editions

BMW Championship

1920
Western Open
Jock Hutchison
August 4–5, 1920
1927
Western Open
Walter Hagen
September 8–10, 1927
1933
Western Open
Macdonald Smith
August 25–27, 1933
1968
Western Open
Jack Nicklaus
August 1–4, 1968
1971
Western Open
Bruce Crampton
July 15–18, 1971
2020
Jon Rahm
August 27–30, 2020
2023
Viktor Hovland
August 17–20, 2023

PGA Championship

1925
Walter Hagen
September 21–26, 1925
1961
Jerry Barber
July 27–31, 1961

U.S. Open

1928
Johnny Farrell
June 21–24, 1928
2003
Jim Furyk
June 12–15, 2003

Intercollegiate Golf Championship

1931
George T. Dunlap Jr.

NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship

1943
NCAA Men's Golf Championship
Wallace Ulrich

U.S. Amateur

2015
Bryson DeChambeau
August 17–23, 2015

U.S. Girls' Junior

2011
Ariya Jutanugarn
July 18–23, 2011

U.S. Senior Open

1997
Graham Marsh

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Follow the course and the people behind it.

ArchitectAndy StaplesRestoration · South · 2023

ArchitectSteve SmyersRenovation · South · 2007

ArchitectTom BendelowOriginal design · South · 1915

ArchitectWillie Park Jr.Original design · North · 1923

Clubs in IL

Sources and editorial notes14 references

Sources for this story

Golf Olympia Fields Country Club
Main historical narrative and course descriptions; stale future-event language excluded.
Consulted 2026-09-21
2026 USGA Media Guide: U.S. Amateur United States Golf Association
Championship results: 2015
Consulted 2026-09-23

Record sources12 references

Olympia Fields Country Club
Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 193, 2023 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.
2026 USGA Media Guide: U.S. Amateur The championship was held from 2015-08-17 through 2015-08-23 at Olympia Fields Country Club.
USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 11, 2015 result row. Club identity matched to Olympia Fields Country Club, Olympia Fields, IL. Explicit physical course resolved to held canonical North under this parent.
USGA: 2026 U.S. Girls Junior record book, page 8 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26GirlsJunior.pdf; SHA-256 311526e6f45012af71b823745da59f40499591f1efae990bafaa12566d8bfc15. Exact result row: 2011 (July 18-23) Ariya Jutanugarn d. Dottie Ardina , 2 and 1; Olympia Fields (Ill.) C.C. (South Course); Medalist — 140, Ariya Jutanugarn ; Entries: 1,086 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. Named Course identity is supported by the championship result or the archived primary routing evidence.
2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 2003 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 Official Club or regional association evidence corroborates the historical host identity for Olympia Fields Country Club; the dated USGA venue wording and canonical locality are retained separately. The dated North Course qualifier resolves to the existing North Course owned by this Club. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
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: pgatourmedia.pgatourhq.com.
2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 43rd playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
PGA Championship host record The 1961 PGA record names Olympia Fields. The host Club is verified; the exact course and routing used for this edition have not been confirmed.
NCAA: 2025 Division I Mens Golf Championships Records Book Official NCAA team and individual championship records, PDF pages5-9 and30. Separate team/individual awards; NCAA chronology starts1939, not the pre1939 intercollegiate family. Dates remain unasserted except where printed in Houston PDF page14 for1982.
NCAA records and Princeton Athletics: 1930-1939 golf history NCAA PDF page 5 names the 1931 site; the official Princeton 1931 section identifies Olympia Fields, Chicago. The Olympia Fields Chicago institution is recorded without selecting among its historical courses. Club-level precision only. Do not assign a modern Course, historical routing or round-specific use without independent physical-course evidence.