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).
41.962282
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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:
Illinois: 5th best course in Illinois (Golf Digest, 2023/24).
USA: 93rd best course in the USA (Golf Digest, 2023).
World: formerly ranked world's 85th best course (GOLF magazine, 2013; not in subsequent editions of this ranking).
No.1 course:
Illinois: 15th best course in Illinois.
Ryder Cup: Rome plays host to the first ever Ryder Cup to be staged in Italy, with the USA defending golf’s greatest team trophy at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club (Sept 29-Oct 1).
Solheim Cup: also in September, also in southern Europe, the 18th Solheim Cup will be contested at Finca Cortesin on the Costa del Sol, with Europe defending after their surprise win in Toledo, Inverness Club (Ohio) in 2021 (Sept 22-24).
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Céline Boutier: with many successes as both an amateur and professional golfer, Boutier added a major championship title to her impressive résumé at this year’s Evian Championship.
Alex Cejka: buffeted by rain and high winds, especially on the high-scoring final day, Čejka prevailed over Pádraig Harrington in a playoff at Royal Porthcawl, to scoop the Senior Open Championship title.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
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