Club information | |
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Location in the United States Location in Illinois | |
Location | Olympia Fields, Illinois |
Established | 1915, 110 years ago |
Type | Private |
Total holes | 36 |
Events hosted | U.S Open (1928, 2003) PGA Championship (1925, 1961) U.S. Senior Open (1997) U.S. Amateur (2015) Women's PGA (2017) Western Open (5) BMW Championship (2020, 2023) |
Website | ofcc.info |
North Course | |
Designed by | Willie Park Jnr. |
Par | 70 |
Length | 7,343 yards (6,714 m)[1] |
Course rating | 76.6 |
Slope rating | 150 [2] |
South Course | |
Designed by | Tom Bendelow |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,106 yards (6,498 m)[3] |
Course rating | 75.0 |
Slope rating | 146 [3] |
Olympia Fields Country Club | |
Nearest city | Olympia Fields, Illinois |
Built | 1915 |
Architect | Bendelow, Thomas M.; Nimmons, George Croll, et al. |
Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 01000082[4] |
Added to NRHP | February 9, 2001 |
Olympia Fields Country Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, about 25 miles (40 km) south of The Loop. It contains two eighteen-hole courses, North and South. The North Course is considered one of the top three courses in the Chicago area, and is generally ranked in the top 50 courses in the United States.[5] The South Course is regularly ranked in the top ten in Illinois. Olympia Fields is one of the few private clubs in the U.S. with multiple courses ranked, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places.