Cantigny Golf Club is a public golf course located in

Wheaton, Illinois Wheaton is a suburban city in Milton and Winfield Townships and is the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois. It is located approximately west of Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 52,894, which was estimated ...

. It is a 27-hole course owned by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and managed by Kemper Sports.

History

Cantigny Golf is built on the former estate of Colonel

Robert R. McCormick Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American lawyer, businessman and Anti-war movement, anti-war activist. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Party (Unite ...

, who was the editor and publisher of the

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. Robert R. McCormick inherited the land, which was known then as Red Oaks Farm, from his mother. The renaming of the land to Cantigny came upon Colonel McCormick's return from duty in

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, where he led the First Infantry Division into the first American Victory in

at the Battle at

Cantigny Cantigny is a park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the ''Chicago Tribune'', and is open to the public. Cantigny includes large ...

, a small French village roughly 60 miles north of Paris. Upon Robert R. McCormicks passing, and due to his lack of kin, his will instructed that his entire estate to be used for philanthropic purposes, and the land to be used as a place of recreation for the public. To encourage the public's use of the land, the

McCormick Foundation McCormick Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit charitable trust established in 1955, following the death of "Colonel" Robert R. McCormick of the McCormick family. , it had more than US$1 billion in assets. History In 1911, McCormick became the e ...

developed plans for a public golf course. The construction of Cantigny Golf began in 1986, by the Wadsworth Construction Company, and was completed in 1988, and opened to the public in 1989. The course, designed by Roger Packard, is composed of three 9-hole courses: Lakeside, Woodside, and Hillside. Jacobson Golf Course Design updated the course in 2003.

Tournaments

Important Tournaments hosted by Cantigny Golf: * 1998 - Illinois PGA Club Professional Championship * 2002 - Illinois State Amateur Championship * 2007 - U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship * 2013 & 2014 - Chicago Open

References

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