{"id":19804,"date":"2020-08-29T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/listing\/illinois-oak-park-country-club\/"},"modified":"2021-07-18T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:23:43","slug":"illinois-oak-park-country-club","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/listing\/illinois-oak-park-country-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Park Country Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oak Park Country Club is a private golf facility located in River Grove, Illinois. Designed by architect Donald J. Ross in 1914, Oak Park Country Club offers an 18-hole golf course that was renovated in 2007 by architect Rick Jacobson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 190-acre parcel of land on which Oak Park Country Club sits was purchased in 1914 for $190,000. Elmwood Park paid the club $200,000 for 20 of those acres 41 years later so they could build Elmwood Park High School.<\/p>\n<p>The par 5 first hole is a dogleg left that plays 516 yards from the black tees. A bunker is positioned 238 yards on the left side of the fairway and a second fairway bunker appears around 290 yards from the tee box. About 50 yards in front of the green is stream, leading to a raised green that is both fast and firm. <\/p>\n<p>The miss on nearly every hole at Oak Park Country Club is short and below the hole. Overshooting these putting surfaces will guarantee trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Horton Smith, who was a host professional at Oak Park Country Club, was the first player to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/chicagos-early-connection-to-the-masters-golf-tournament\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win the Masters in 1934<\/a>. The World Golf Hall of Fame member also won the tournament again in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Henry \u201cErrie\u201d Ball was head golf professional at Oak Park Country Club from 1946-1969. A competitor in the first Masters Tournament in 1934, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/errie-ball-chicago-legend-elected-to-the-pga-golf-professional-hall-of-fame\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ball is enshrined<\/a> in the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame and the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","listing-category":[1680],"list-tags":[2104],"location":[1692,1810],"class_list":["post-19804","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing-category-private","list-tags-illinois","location-illinois","location-river-grove"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/19804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing-category?post=19804"},{"taxonomy":"list-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/list-tags?post=19804"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicagogolfreport.com\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=19804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}