Course History

Flossmoor Golf Club

Walter Lis June 12, 2026

Flossmoor Golf Club, founded in 1899 originally as Homewood Country Club, is a private course situated in Bloom Township just outside Flossmoor, Illinois. Renowned as one of the first championship ...

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Tee Box #6: Shepherd’s Crook’s Latest Improvement

Greg Miles July 20, 2025

Golf instructors often tell their students “There are no plateaus in golf; either you are getting better, or you are getting worse.” Can the same be said of golf facilities? Under the leadership ...

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Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook Avoids The Spotlight

Walter Lis June 12, 2026

Butler National Golf Club was the vision of businessman, philanthropist and sportsman Paul Butler, who was also the founder of the village of Oak Brook. Butler inherited the J. W. Butler Paper ...

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Cantigny Golf’s Renovated Hillside-9 is Now Open

Greg Miles July 5, 2025

Press releases in 2023 announced that Cantigny Golf would undertake a 3-year project to renovate its three nine-hole courses, which had opened 34-years prior in 1989. The renovation design work ...

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Chicago’s Top-10 Elevated Tees (and then some)

Greg Miles June 27, 2025

High tea or high tee? Over in England for the working class folks in the region around Buckingham Palace a "high tea" means a worker’s substantive meal (supper with tea) that is served at a table ...