Westwood Country Club is a
country club in
Westwood, Missouri
Westwood is a village in west St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 278 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Westwood is located at (38.640619, -90.434286).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total ...
, in central
St. Louis County, Missouri
St. Louis County is located in the eastern-central portion of Missouri. It is bounded by the City of St. Louis and the Mississippi River to the east, the Missouri River to the north, and the Meramec River to the south. At the 2020 census, th ...
.
Westwood Country Club is one of the top four elite St. Louis area
country clubs, along with
St. Louis Country Club
St. Louis Country Club (SLCC) is a country club located in Ladue, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. It is recognized by the United States Golf Association (USGA) as one of the first 100 Clubs in America.
Club history
Founded in 1892 as a polo cl ...
, and, with
Old Warson Country Club
Old Warson Country Club is a country club located in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1953, it hosted the 1971 Ryder Cup and the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship. The golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.
Hale Irwin, the win ...
and
Bellerive Country Club, one of the "big four" elite St. Louis clubs.
Membership is about 650 families, mostly (although no longer entirely) Jewish.
The par-72 18-hole
golf course was designed by Harold Paddock and built in 1928. The course was more recently renovated under the direction of golf architect Keith Foster. There are four
Har-Tru
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
...
and six Deco Turf
tennis courts and an
Olympic-size swimming pool.
The club was founded in 1907 specifically to provide a Jewish country club for the St. Louis area, during a time when most country clubs excluded Jews from membership. It was first built in the town of
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It may refer to:
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* Glendale, New South Wales
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. By 1927 many of the members' households had moved westward to the
Central West End and the towns of
Clayton and
Ladue
Ladue is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 8,989.
Ladue has the highest median household income of any city in Missouri with a population over 1,000.
Ge ...
, so farmland was purchased in what is now Westwood and a new club built, with the course designed by Paddock and the clubhouse by the firm of
Maritz and Young. There were, at that time, also riding stables.
The club maintains a low public profile (there is no sign at the entrance, and the address was unpublished until recently) and a refined ambiance; conducting business on the premises is frowned upon. Membership criteria remains rather selective, favoring successive generations of families.
The club was ranked 29th in the 2012 Platinum Clubs of America list of top full-service country clubs.
References
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External links
Westwood Country Club website
Golf clubs and courses in Missouri
1907 establishments in Missouri
Jewish clubs and societies
Jews and Judaism in St. Louis
Buildings and structures in St. Louis County, Missouri