Boone Valley Golf Club is a private

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The 18-hole club was founded b
Robert Ross
and was built by golf course architect, PB Dye, son of celebrated golf course architect

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. In May, 1991,

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headed by

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, acquired Boone Valley Golf Club. The 440 acre property is located 3 miles from the

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in the Femme Osage Valley.

PGA Tour Champions host

From 1996 to 2000, Boone Valley Golf Club hosted the

Boone Valley Classic The Boone Valley Classic was a golf tournament on the Senior PGA Tour from 1996 to 2001. It was last played in Augusta, Missouri at the Boone Valley Golf Club. The event was played at stroke play except that the last event, called the Enterprise Ren ...

, a Senior PGA Tour (now known as the

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) event. In 2001, Boone Valley hosted the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship also on the Senior PGA Tour.

USGA host

In 2007, Boone Valley hosted the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship and in 2017 hosted the

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. On October 5, 2017 the USGA announced that the US Girls' Junior Champion from the previous year be exempt from local and sectional qualifying for the US Women's Open (and US Open for the US Junior Champion) effective with the 2018 championship.

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*{{Official website, http://www.boonevalley.org Buildings and structures in St. Charles County, Missouri Golf clubs and courses in Missouri Sports venues completed in 1988 1988 establishments in Missouri