Cantigny Golf Club is a public golf course located in

Wheaton, Illinois Wheaton is a city in and the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Milton and Winfield Townships, approximately west of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, Wheaton's population was 53,970, making it the 27th-mos ...

. 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 publisher, lawyer, and businessman. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. A ...

, 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

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

at the Battle at Cantigny, 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 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 and 2014 – Chicago Open

References

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