Glen Echo Country Club

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Glen Echo Country Club
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Clubhouse, April 2012
Club information
Location Normandy, St. Louis County, near St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Established1901
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Events hosted 1904 Summer Olympics
Website Official website
Designed by James Foulis [1]
Par 71 [2]
Length6382 yards [3] Longest hole is #4 - 538 yards [1]

Glen Echo County Club, located in Normandy, Missouri, [4] is a private golf club that was founded by George McGrew and his son-in-law, Albert Bond Lambert. [1] Completed in 1901, it was the first 18-hole golf course in St. Louis and the first golf course constructed west of the Mississippi River. [1] The course hosted the golf events for the 1904 Summer Olympics. [1] [5]

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History

The club was designed by James Foulis from Scotland, winner of the 1896 U.S. Open, and built by him and his brother Robert. [1] It opened on May 25, 1901 and hosted the golf events for the 1904 Summer Olympics. [1] The LPGA Tour visited the course, hosting the St. Louis Women's Invitational in 1954, 1964, and 1970. [1]

Hole information

All information about the holes are from this source. [1]

Hole #NameParYards
1Lilac Way4380
2The Valley4432
3Spooks4357
4Long Drive5538
5Roadway4277
6The Glen3176
7Boomerang4468
8Alps5472
9Fountain3164
    
Hole #NameParYards
10Hard Scrabble5510
11Hillside3244
12Westward Ho4406
13Echo4353
14Dewdrop3136
15The Lake4360
16Punch Bowl4434
17Old Hickory4384
18Sweet Home4411

Other amenities

The course offers a short range tee and a separate Zoysia long range tee. It also has driving range, a chipping green, and a practice bunker. [4] It has a bent grass green that allows for walking and golf carts on the course. [4] [6] The fairways for the course are Zoysia grass. The course's bunkers were renovated in the fall of 2012 by Goalby Golf Design and the Glen Echo staff, resulting in the bunkers being modified to the old style flat bottomed bunker.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Healey, Jim. "Glen Echo County Club". golfclubatlas.com. Accessed 7 July 2010.
  2. Golf course information. - accessed 7 July 2010.
  3. Golflink.com profile of the Glen Echo Country Club. - accessed 7 July 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 Golfnation.com profile of Glen Echo Country Club. Archived 2010-06-15 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 7 July 2010.
  5. Spalding's report of the 1904 Summer Olympics. Archived August 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine pp. 231, 233.
  6. Golf.com profile of the Glen Echo Country Club. - accessed 7 July 2010.

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