Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
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Cog Hill Golf & Country Club is a public golf complex located 30 miles (48.3 km) southwest of Chicago
. Cog Hill hosts the PGA Tour
's BMW Championship from 2009 to 2011 on its championship course Dubsdread.
, which, at that time, was one of the downtown Chicago's leading department stores. The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway
ran from Chicago to Lemont giving golfers easy access for 25 cents. The club expanded in 1929 when the three brothers bought another 160 acre (0.6474976 km²) from the Reed Family on the east side of Parker Road. Course #2 was designed and built by David McIntosh and Bert Coghill. It was opened in the fall of 1929, within days of Wall Street Crash of 1929
. Even during the tough twelve years of the depression Cog Hill was able to prosper. In 1951, Joe Jemsek bought Cog Hill. Course #3 was added in 1963 and Dubsdread was completed in 1964. The Western Golf Association awarded the Western Open
to Cog Hill in 1991. It changed its name to the BMW Championship in 2007. Tiger Woods
shot a course record 9 under 62 on Dubsdread in 2009.
http://www.coghillgolf.com/about/hole_in_one.asp
Green fee to play Dubsdread is $155.
41.676693°N 87.951651°W
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. Cog Hill hosts the PGA Tour
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
's BMW Championship from 2009 to 2011 on its championship course Dubsdread.
History
Three brothers moved to the Chicago area in 1920. John W., Martin J., and Bert Coghill bought the McLaughlin farm on the east side of Lemont Illinois in 1926 to build a golf club. They then hired David McIntosh, who owned Oak Hills, to build them a golf course. Cog Hill Course #1 opened on the Fourth of July weekend in 1927. Reservations for golf were taken at the Boston StoreBoston Store
-History:The Boston Store is mentioned in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" published in 1900 and Carl Sandburg's Mamie, part of his 1916 Chicago Poems collection....
, which, at that time, was one of the downtown Chicago's leading department stores. The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway
Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway
The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway, or C&JE, was an electric interurban railway linking the cities of Chicago and Joliet, Illinois. It was the only interurban between those cities and provided a link between the streetcar network of Chicago and the cities along the Illinois River Valley in...
ran from Chicago to Lemont giving golfers easy access for 25 cents. The club expanded in 1929 when the three brothers bought another 160 acre (0.6474976 km²) from the Reed Family on the east side of Parker Road. Course #2 was designed and built by David McIntosh and Bert Coghill. It was opened in the fall of 1929, within days of Wall Street Crash of 1929
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 , also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout...
. Even during the tough twelve years of the depression Cog Hill was able to prosper. In 1951, Joe Jemsek bought Cog Hill. Course #3 was added in 1963 and Dubsdread was completed in 1964. The Western Golf Association awarded the Western Open
Western Open
The Western Open, a professional golf tournament, was first played in 1899. At the time of its 2006 playing, the Western Open was the 3rd oldest active PGA Tour tournament, after the British Open and U.S. Open...
to Cog Hill in 1991. It changed its name to the BMW Championship in 2007. Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...
shot a course record 9 under 62 on Dubsdread in 2009.
Hole in One
| Name | Date | Yardage | Course | Hole number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Gaddis | November 9, 2008 | 180 | Course #3 | 9th |
| Rich Mylak | November 4, 2008 | 125 | Course #1 | 4th |
| Josh Christenson | October 11, 2008 | 120 | Course #3 | 4th |
| George Capista | October 7, 2008 | 133 | Course #1 | 4th |
| Steve Chmelovsky | October 5, 2008 | 158 | Course #2 | 7th |
| Jim Bartelt | October 1, 2008 | 235 | Course #1 | 8th |
| Joe Ways | September 22, 2008 | 135 | Course #2 | 14th |
| Morris Smith | August 28, 2008 | 201 | Course #1 | 10th |
| Tim Grzenia | August 17, 2008 | 135 | Course #2 | 4th |
| Mario Pressiconey | August 12, 2008 | 140 | Course #3 | 4th |
| Joe Doe | August 6, 2008 | 163 | Course #3 | 16th |
| Narender Reddy | August 3, 2008 | 162 | Course #3 | 12th |
| Michael Cable | July 25, 2008 | 175 | Course #3 | 9th |
| John Cesal | July 14, 2008 | 168 | Course #1 | 17th |
| Tom McGrath | July 13, 2008 | 257 | Course #3 | 1st |
| Mike Matariyeh | July 11, 2008 | 154 | Course #3 | 12th |
| Jim McKeown | July 3, 2008 | 185 | Course #2 | 7th |
| Dennis Karas | June 29, 2008 | 175 | Course #1 | 10th |
| Chris Savino | June 2, 2008 | 169 | Course #2 | 7th |
| Anthony Millincamp | May 17, 2008 | 175 | Course #1 | 17th |
| Moez Nomanbhoy | May 16, 2008 | 164 | Course #2 | 4th |
| Mark Sikes | April 13, 2008 | 195 | Course #3 | 7th |
| Robert Tangorra | March 20, 2008 | 114 | Course #3 | 4th |
| Maury Sheehy | October 24, 2007 | 185 | Course #3 | 16th |
| Robert J. Fisher | September 20, 2007 | 140 | Course #2 | 4th |
| Matt Glomb | September 1, 2007 | 126 | Course #1 | 4th |
| William Schuch | August 28, 2007 | 120 | Course #3 | 12th |
| Thomas Martelli | August 14, 2007 | 150 | Course #2 | 14th |
| Jim Oprzedek | August 9, 2007 | 149 | Course #3 | 12th |
| Yujie Wang | July 31, 2007 | 110 | Course #3 | 4th |
| Sarah Radziewicz | July 26, 2007 | 210 | Course #1 | 8th |
| Ralph Contacessi | July 22, 2007 | 175 | Course #1 | 17th |
| Patrick Baldwin | July 12, 2007 | 160 | Course #1 | 17th |
| Bradley Paulsen | July 8, 2007 | 148 | Course #2 | 14th |
| Casey Labuda | July 8, 2007 | 182 | Dubsdread | 12th |
| Gilbert Votaggio | July 6, 2007 | 160 | Course #2 | 14th |
| Jim Krupa | June 28, 2007 | 120 | Course #3 | 4th |
| Alan Ervin | June 21, 2007 | 125 | Course #1 | 4th |
| Roger Hahn | May 10, 2007 | 135 | Course #2 | 13th |
| Cary Frick | April 21, 2007 | 241 | Course #1 | 8th |
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BMW Championship
The BMW Championship will also be held at Cog Hill in 2011.| Year | Player | Country | Score | To Par | Margin | Earnings ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dustin Johnson Dustin Johnson Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011.... |
68-70-68-69=275 | –9 | 1 | 1,350,000 | |
| 2009 | Tiger Woods Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No... |
68-67-62-68=265 | –19 | 8 | 1,350,000 | |
| 2007 | Tiger Woods Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No... |
67-67-65-63=262 | –22 | 2 | 1,260,000 |
Western Open
| Year | Player | Country | Score | To Par | Margin | Earnings ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Trevor Immelman Trevor Immelman Trevor John Immelman is a South African professional golfer and winner of the 2008 Masters Tournament.-Early years:Immelman was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Born into a golfing family , he took up golf at the age of five. He attended Hottentots Holland High School... |
69-66-69-67=271 | -13 | 2 | 900,000 | |
| 2005 | Jim Furyk Jim Furyk James Michael Furyk is an American professional golfer, 2010 FedEx Cup champion, and 2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year. He has won one major championship, the 2003 U.S. Open. Furyk is known for consistently playing at the top level and for a visibly unconventional, looping golf swing... |
64-70-67-69=270 | -14 | 2 | 900,000 | |
| 2004 | Stephen Ames Stephen Ames Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada.... |
67-73-64-70=274 | -10 | 2 | 864,000 | |
| 2003 | Tiger Woods Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No... |
63-70-65-69=267 | -21 | 5 | 810,000 | |
| 2002 | Jerry Kelly Jerry Kelly Jerome Patrick Kelly is an American professional golfer.Kelly was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Hartford in 1989 and turned professional later that year, but didn't make it onto the PGA Tour until 1996. This followed a successful 1995 season on the second tier... |
67-69-68-65=269 | -19 | 2 | 720,000 | |
| 2001 | Scott Hoch Scott Hoch Scott Mabon Hoch is an American golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002.Hoch was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a member of the golf team at Wake Forest University before graduating in 1978. He also played on the winning U.S. team in the Eisenhower Trophy... |
69-68-66-64=267 | -21 | 1 | 648,000 | |
| 2000 | Robert Allenby Robert Allenby Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:... |
69-69-68-68=274 | -14 | 0 | 540,000 | |
| 1999 | Tiger Woods Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No... |
68-66-68-71=273 | -15 | 3 | 450,000 | |
| 1998 | Joe Durant Joe Durant Joseph Scott Durant is an American professional golfer.Durant was born in Pensacola, Florida. He attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, where he majored in Marketing and graduated in 1987. At Huntingdon, he was a three-time NAIA All-American and won the 1987 NAIA Championship.Durant... |
68-67-70-66=271 | -17 | 2 | 396,000 | |
| 1997 | Tiger Woods Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No... |
67-72-68-68=275 | -13 | 3 | 360,000 | |
| 1996 | Steve Stricker Steve Stricker Steven Stricker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour including the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and two FedEx Cup playoff events. His most successful season on tour came in 2009, when he had three tournament victories... |
65-69-67-69=270 | -18 | 8 | 360,000 | |
| 1995 | Billy Mayfair Billy Mayfair William Fred Mayfair is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour .-Early years and amateur career:Mayfair was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Before his fifteenth birthday, he had won a number of junior golf tournaments. In 1981, he was on the cover of Boys' Life magazine as "golf's... |
73-70-69-67=279 | -9 | 1 | 360,000 | |
| 1994 | Nick Price Nick Price Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a South African-Zimbabwean Professional golfer and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Background:... |
67-67-72-71=277 | -11 | 1 | 216,000 | |
| 1993 | Nick Price Nick Price Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a South African-Zimbabwean Professional golfer and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Background:... |
64-71-67-67=269 | -19 | 5 | 216,000 | |
| 1992 | Ben Crenshaw Ben Crenshaw Ben Daniel Crenshaw is an American professional golfer.Crenshaw was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas, where he won three NCAA Championships from 1971 to 1973... |
70-72-65-69=276 | -12 | 2 | 198,000 | |
| 1991 | Russ Cochran Russ Cochran Russell Earl Cochran is an American professional golfer on the Champions Tour who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He is one of eight left-handed players to win a PGA Tour event.... |
66-72-68-69=275 | -13 | 2 | 180,000 |
U.S. Amateur Championship
| Year | Player | Country | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Matt Kuchar Matt Kuchar Matthew Gregory Kuchar is an American professional golfer who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He has ranked as high as number six in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Early career:... |
2 & 1 | Joel Kribel |
U.S. Men's Amateur Public Links
| Year | Player | Country | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Tim Hobby | 4 & 3 | Henry Cagigal | |
| 1970 | Robert Risch | 293 | Mike Zimmerman |
U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links
| Year | Player | Country | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Tracy Kerdyk Tracy Kerdyk Tracy L. Kerdyk is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Kerdyk was born in Coral Gables, Florida. She had an impressive amateur career. In 1987, she won the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and was runner-up in the U.S. Women's Amateur. She played college golf at the... |
4 & 3 | Pearl Sinn Pearl Sinn Ji Young "Pearl" Sinn-Bonanni is a Korean-American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. She played under he maiden name, Pearl Sinn until her marriage in 2002.... |
Course #1 Blue
Course #1 is the oldest course at Cog Hill. The Blue course was designed and built in 1927. Green Fees are $61 on weekends and $53 on weekdays including a golf cart.Course #2 Ravines
Course #2 Ravines was designed and built in 1929. Ravines was adjusted for to host the 1997 United States Amateur Championship. Green Fees are $73 with cart.- Rated 4-Stars by Golf Digest
- Rated as one of "America's 100 Best Courses for $100 or Less" by Golf Digest Course & Travel Magazine
- Dubsdread #4 & Ravines #2 ranked as one of the "Ten Best Two-Course Combinations in the World" by Links Magazine
- Selected as one of "Favorite Classic Courses (Green Fees Under $125)" by PGA Professionals Guide to Travel
- Hole #4 selected "Favorite Short Par 3" by PGA Professionals Guide to Travel
Course #3 Red
In 1963 Cog Hill added Course #3. Green Fees are $61 on weekends and $53 on weekdays including a golf cart.Course #4 Dubsdread
Dubsdread was designed and built by Joseph L. Lee/Dick Wilson in 1964. From September 2007 to September 2008, renowned golf course architect Rees Jones oversaw a renovation project to update the challenges envisioned in the original design of Dick Wilson and Joe Lee. Golfers now face 18 new greens with Sub-Air Systems, redesigned and repositioned sand bunkers, a risk-reward pond on Hole 7, additional tee options, and a 497-yd. par 4 finishing hole featuring a green moved perilously close to the nearby pond.Green fee to play Dubsdread is $155.
Sources
- http://www.coghillgolf.com/
- http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,1570473,00.html
- http://www.golflink.com/golf-courses/course.asp?course=319945
- http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r028/winners.html
External links
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