Chicago Golf Club

Chicago Golf Club opened the country's first 18-hole course in 1893, built by C.B. Macdonald, the preeminent golf expert in the U.S. at the time. Two years later Macdonald built the club a different course after the club moved to a new location in Wheaton, III.: "a really first-class 18- Members played that course until 1923 when Seth Raynor, who began his architectural career as Macdonald's surveyor and engineer, concepts his old boss had developed 15 years earlier (he kept Macdonald's routing, which placed all the O.B. on the left-C.B. sliced the ball).