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Glen View Club<br />
Glen View Club was the inspiration of William Caldwell, a Scotsman on the faculty of<br />
<strong>North</strong>western University. He proposed the need for a club of suitable privacy and<br />
superb conviviality to a group of businessmen in February of 1897. The following<br />
month, the Glen View Golf & Polo Club was incorporated. By year’s end, Glen View’s<br />
first hundred members were enjoying <strong>Chicago</strong>’s second 18-hole golf course.<br />
The original property was purchased from the Dewes family, who immigrated from<br />
Yorkshire, England, and homesteaded the land in the early 19th Century. On the site<br />
selection committee was Daniel H. Burnham, renowned urban planner, who<br />
convinced noted landscape architect. O.C. Simonds, to become a member and<br />
lay-out the grounds. The task of designing the first clubhouse was assigned to<br />
member, William Holabird, of the prominent architectural firm, Holabird & Roche.<br />
(That first clubhouse was destroyed by fire in 1921.) Today’s nearly 200 acres of<br />
rolling beauty stand as testament to these early visions.<br />
The initial golf course was designed by Richard Leslie, the Club’s first golf<br />
professional, in consultation with member and golf course architect, Herbert J.<br />
Tweedie. William S. Flynn was commissioned for a redesign in 1922. Over the<br />
ensuing ninety years, Glen View Club’s golf course, like most historic clubs,<br />
underwent a series of evolutions. In 2013, award winning architect, Jim Urbina, was<br />
contracted as the Club’s current golf course partner, and most of Flynn’s original<br />
design elements have been restored.<br />
In 1899, Glen View Club hosted the first Western Open – one of five to be held on<br />
our course. The Club hosted the 1902 U.S. Amateur, which was won by member,<br />
Louis N. James, the first American born golfer to claim the title. In 1904, Willie<br />
Anderson won the third of his four U.S. Opens at Glen View Club.<br />
Noted members through the years have included U.S. Presidents, William Howard<br />
Taft and Warren G. Harding, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, and renowned<br />
amateur golfer, Charles “Chick” Evans. Chick was joined in the World Golf Hall of<br />
Fame by Jock Hutchison, who served as Glen View Club’s head professional for thirty<br />
five years.<br />
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