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The Milwaukee Country Club is a
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located in
River Hills, Wisconsin River Hills is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,597 at the 2010 census. History In the early 19th century, the River Hills area was controlled by Native Americans, including the Menominee, Potawatomi, ...
. It is the home club of the late renowned teaching pro
Manuel de la Torre Manuel Alejandro De la Torre Urbina (born June 13, 1980) is a former Mexican football defender. Career De la Torre began playing football as a defender with Club Universidad Nacional's youth sides. He progressed to Pumas' senior side where ...
The golf course features a 6,875 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 73.8 while the slope rating is 135 on Bent grass.
Colt, Alison & Morrison Ltd Colt, Alison & Morrison Ltd was a British golf course architecture firm founded in 1928. The partners Harry Colt, Charles Hugh Alison, and John Stanton Fleming Morrison jointly or severally designed over 300 courses on all of the continents with t ...
designed the course when it opened in 1929.


Notable events hosted

*1903
Western Open The Western Open was a professional golf tournament in the United States, for most of its history an event on the PGA Tour. The tournament's founding in 1899 actually pre-dated the start of the Tour, which is generally dated from 1916, the ye ...
*1969 Walker Cup *1988
U.S. Senior Amateur The United States Senior Men's Amateur Golf Championship is a national tournament for amateur golf competitors at least 55 years of age. It is operated by the United States Golf Association (USGA). The tournament starts with 36 holes of stroke pl ...
*2008
U.S. Mid-Amateur The U.S. Mid-Amateur, often called the Mid-Am for short, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for post-college amateur golfers, organized by the USGA. It was first played in at Bellerive Country Club in Creve Coeur, Missouri, ...


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