Downers Grove Golf ClubA public golf course owned & operated by the Downers Grove Park District.
Book tee times online at www.dgparks.org up to seven days in advance forFridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
USGA RULES GOVERN ALL PLAY EXCEPT WHERE MODIFIED• Proper golf attire required - shirts and golf or athletic shoes.• The Downers Grove Golf Club is a non-metal spike facility.• Groups unable to maintain proper pace of play will be required to pick up andmove into proper position.
• The starter will form foursomes at his option. Fivesomes or spectators are notpermitted without prior authorization.
• No rainchecks for slow play.• All yardages are measured to the center of greens.• Please replace divots, repair ball marks and rake sand traps.• Out of bounds is defined by white stakes and boundary fences.• All water hazards are lateral hazards unless otherwise marked.• Clubhouse, flower beds, mulched trees and paths are grounds under repair. Free drop.• Fence line obstruction of ball - drop within two club lengths, no closer to hole,with no penalty.
• Ball inside fence line - drop within two club lengths from point of entry, one strokepenalty.
• Please keep gas carts 30' from greens and pull carts off tees and greens.• Allow two minutes maximum to locate lost ball.• Do not enter or retrieve balls from wetland mitigation areas on all holes.• There is an 8 stroke limit on each hole. • Please respect fellow players and use cell phones judiciously.
The Chicago Golf Club was established on this site by a group of Chicago businessmenin 1892. The founding father of the Chicago Golf Club was Charles Blair Macdonald whowas, according to Golf Journal, "a true and imposing pioneer of golf in America."Macdonald has been credited with having great influence in establishing the UnitedStates Golf Association, the development of golf course architecture in America, and"defending the faith" as taught to him at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrewsin Scotland.Early in 1892, Macdonald, motivated by England's Sir Henry Wood, Commissioner
General to the Chicago World's Fair, persuaded thirty of his Chicago Club colleagues tocontribute ten dollars each to design and construct a nine-hole golf course. The site thatwas chosen to build the first Chicago Golf Club was a sixty-acre stock farm owned by A.Haddow Smith. A. H. Smith was a Lanarkshire golfer who had immigrated in 1890 to theUnited States from Musselburgh, Scotland where the game of golf was first played in 1774.When Smith heard of Macdonald's plan, he enthusiastically offered his land as the locationfor the new golf course.The golf course was completed and ready for play in the late spring of 1892. Thus
America's first golf course west of the Allegheny mountain range had been established.When the inaugural season had ended, Macdonald convinced Chicago Golf Clubmembers to add nine more holes to the course. Therefore, in 1893, the first eighteen-hole golf course in the United States was established on this site.By 1895, Chicago Golf Club members had become so taken with the sport that they
decided to build a new eighteen-hole golf course on two-hundred acres of land locatednear Wheaton, Illinois. The Chicago Golf Club is still in existence there today.From 1895 to 1968, this original site of the Chicago Golf Club was owned by several
different individuals and was operated under the name of Belmont Country Club. In1968, the course was purchased by the Downers Grove Park District and was renamedthe "Downers Grove Golf Club".
Downers GroveGolf ClubHistory
COURSE RATING/SLOPERed 69.8/118Gold 68/119White 70.4/126Blue 72.6/131
Scorer Attest Date
HOLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT Hcp Net
BLUE 414 416 467 375 331 183 420 192 482 3280
WHITE 398 394 425 344 312 165 370 184 449 3041
GOLD 387 373 397 309 274 133 339 171 399 2782
RED 336 331 346 288 262 113 307 150 382 2515
MEN’S 1 2 4 7 8 9 5 6 3
PAR 4 4 5 4 4 3 4 3 5 36
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LADIES 3 1 2 6 4 9 5 8 7
PACE :16 :31 :48 1:03 1:18 1:32 1:49 2:03 2:20
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