River Hills, WI
Milwaukee Country Club
Milwaukee Country Club was among the nine founding members of the Wisconsin State Golf Association in 1901. The association brought together Clubs from around the state to organize competition.1
- Location
- River Hills, WI
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72
- Club website
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Milwaukee and the beginnings of Wisconsin competition
Milwaukee member Hamilton Vose became the association’s first president and won its inaugural State Amateur at Sinnissippi. Administrative leadership and competitive success were joined in the same Club member at the association’s beginning.1
The course
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Championships
Results and dates 4 editions
BMW Championship
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Western Open
Alex Smith
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U.S. Mid-Amateur
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Steve Wilson
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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Clarence Moore
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Walker Cup
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United States (Walker Cup)
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Sources and editorial notes7 references
Sources for this story
- About the WSGA Wisconsin State Golf Association
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- golfcoursegurus
- Robert Trent Jones Society: Geographical Course Register
- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 2008 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.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 8 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1988 (Sept. 19-24) Clarence Moore d. Bud Stevens , 5 and 4; Milwaukee (Wis.) C.C.; Medalists — 148, John Harbottle, Richard Goerlich Jr.; Entries: 1,440 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.
- R&A official Walker Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1969 (Aug. 22-23): USA 10, GB&I 8; Milwaukee (Wis.) C.C. Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 70, 1903 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.