6N001 Medinah Rd,
Medinah, Illinois 60157
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Marty DeAngelo (Director of Golf)The Course:
54 holes. Tree-lined parkland. Gently undulating terrain - a few slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Suburban, residential and lakeside (Lake Kadijah).
Designer:
No.1 course: designed by Tom Bendelow (1924).
No.2 course: original design by Tom Bendelow (1927); renovation by Rees Jones (2017).
No.3 course: original design by Tom Bendelow (1928); redesign by Rees Jones (2003, 2009).
Above distances are for the No.3 course. Also at Medinah is the 18-hole No.1 course (6713 yds from back tees) and 18-hole No.2 course (6210 yds from back tees).
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25 mi W of downtown Chicago.
Medinah
Medinah Country Club offers its members and their guests 54 holes of excellent quality golf. The revered No. 3 layout is widely recognised as a golf course that ranks alongside the world's best. It is one of the USA's most admired tree-lined parkland layouts, with an outstanding array of excellently crafted and challenging holes.
Tom Bendelow originally designed the No.3 course back in the late 1920s; it was updated by Rees Jones in 2003. Bendelow also designed the No.1 course, which is regarded as another Illinois gem. Medinah is a private club, with its courses generally playable only by members and their invited guests.
Medinah is a private club. Guests may only play if hosted by a member.
Non-metal spike facility. Caddies available.
Excellent
Medinah's No.3 course has hosted many top level national championships and professional tour events, including the 2012 Ryder Cup matches, US Opens, PGA Championships and several Western Opens (see our Tournaments section >by Venue >Medinah CC).
Medinah's No.3 course, originally designed for Medinah’s ladies, was completed in 1928. The original Tom Bendelow layout only lasted three years before a major redesign took place in the early 1930s.
While the golf courses were being constructed, Richard Schmid was hired to design the clubhouse. Schmid had a flair for blending the classic lines of Byzantine, Oriental, Louis XIV and Italian architecture characteristic of many Masonic structures. His design gave Medinah’s clubhouse the taste, style and elegance still evident today.
No.3 course:
World: formerly ranked world's 85th best course (GOLF magazine, 2013; not in subsequent editions of this ranking).
USA: 53rd best course in the USA (Golf Digest, 2019/20).
State: 3rd best course in Illinois (Golf Digest, 2019/20).
No.1 course:
State: 14th best course in Illinois.
Tournament of Champions: the PGA Tour’s calendar-year starts, as it has done since 1999, with this iconic event in Hawaii. The field is drawn from players who won a PGA Tour event in 2022, or were amongst the top 30 in last year’s FedEx Cup final standings (Jan 6-9).
Desert Swing: the European (DP World) Tour launches into 2023 with three events in its UAE “Desert Swing”. Up first is the Abu Dhabi Championship (Jan 19-22), followed by the Dubai Desert Classic (Jan 26-29) and the Ras Al Kaimah Championship (Feb 2-5).
Kathy Whitworth: the end of 2022 saw the passing of LPGA Tour legend Kathy Whitworth. Her 88 LPGA Tour victories is more than achieved by any other golfer on either the LPGA or PGA Tours. Amongst her victories were six major championship titles.
Barry Lane: the golfing world was also saddened by the passing of Barry Lane, one of the European Tour and European Senior Tours most popular players. Enjoying success on both Tours, Lane was know for his excellent ball-striking and amiable personality.
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