History
The club was founded on March 29, 1897 as the Glen View Golf and Polo Club by a group of Chicago businessmen, and a few years later the name was shortened to simply the Glen View Club. The club was siutated so as to be close to a commuter railroad from Chicago, and the town of Golf, Illinois, got its name from the simple sign -- "Golf" -- that directed riders from the makeshift station to the Club. The original club house was destroyed by fire in the 1920s and the current club house was built on the same site at that time. The 200-acre (0.81 km2) grounds are on an unusually hilly part of northern Illinois, a site which is excellent for golf.
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