Activities
The club features a 6,948 yard 18-hole course from the men's longest tees and carries a rating of 74 and a slope of 142. The course is the second-oldest 18-hole course in the Chicago area after Chicago Golf Club. Richard Leslie, the first head professional, is credited with the original layout of the golf course, and in 1922 the course was redesigned by William S. Flynn, who also designed Shinnecock Hills in New York and other famous courses. Areas of the golf course were again redesigned in 1999 by architect David Esler, who specializes in William S. Flynn courses.
The Glen View Club was the home club of the legendary Chick Evans, the well-known golfer in the early 20th Century and the namesake of the Evans Scholars Program.
The course has hosted several major tournaments, including the 1904 U.S. Open, the Western Open, including the first Western Open in 1899, and the United States Senior Men's Amateur Golf Championship in 1902. Annual member events include a member-member tournament called the "Royal and Ancient," and a member-guest tournament called "Twa Days."
The club also boasts excellent facilities for paddle tennis, tennis, and skeet and trap shooting, and swimming.
Read more about this topic: Glen View Club
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do—I just did it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)