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The construction of Cantigny Golf began in 1986, by the Wadsworth Construction Company, and was completed in 1988, and opened to the public in 1989. The course, designed by Roger Packard, is composed of three 9-hole courses: Lakeside, Woodside, and Hillside. Jacobson Golf Course Design updated the course in 2003. [2]
In 1897, the Glen View Club bought a portion of the Dewes land and built an 18-hole golf course. Around 1899, one member, Albert J. Earling, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, started taking his private rail car from his offices downtown to golf at the Glen View Golf Club. He would tell people he was "going to golf."
The par-72 golf course at Glen View measures 6,948 yards (6,353 m) from the back tees, and carries a rating of 73.4 and a slope of 139. [2]Richard Leslie, the first head professional, who consulted with Herbert J. Tweedie on the design, [1] is credited with the original layout of the golf course.
Warrenville was founded in 1833 when Julius Warren and his family moved west from New York to seek a fresh start from a failing gristmill and distillery.Daniel Warren, Julius' father, claimed land at what is now McDowell Woods and Julius claimed land at what is now the Warrenville Grove Forest Preserve. [4]
It contains new homes, offices, and shopping centers, including a movie theater and The Glen Town Center. Among other amenities, it includes a lake, soccer fields, tennis courts, walking and biking trails, two golf courses, Kohl Children's Museum, the Glenview Park District Park Center, Attea Middle School, and the North Glenview Metra station.
Known as the Father of Golf in Chicago, designer Macdonald went to college in Scotland at the University of St Andrews, [3] where he learned to play the game. He brought back a set of clubs, and in early 1888, on the Lake Forest estate of a friend, C.B. Farwell, and his son-in-law, Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, laid out seven informal golf holes on an interesting piece of lakefront property known ...