KemperSports is a privately held golf course and hospitality management company founded in 1978 by Steven H. Lesnik and James S. Kemper, Jr., president and chairman of the board of
Kemper Insurance.
The company began with the management of
Kemper Lakes Golf Club
Kemper Lakes Golf Club is a private country club in the central United States, located in Ela Township, Lake County, outside Kildeer, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. It is also near the communities of Forest Lake, Lake Zurich, Hawtho ...
in
Kildeer, Illinois
Kildeer is a village in southwestern Lake County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 4,091. It has limited development to custom houses on large lots, and has worked to preserve natural feat ...
(United States), an upscale public golf course in the Chicago area.
Based in
Northbrook, Illinois
Northbrook is a suburb of Chicago, located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States, on the border of Lake County, Illinois, Lake County. It is part of a collection of upscale residential communities north of Chicago and belon ...
, KemperSports builds, owns and manages golf courses, private clubs, resorts, athletic clubs, lodging venues and restaurants, and has more than 7,000 employees.
[ Its clients include owners and developers of golf courses and hospitality venues, financial institutions and municipalities. The company's management portfolio includes ]Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is a complex of five links and two par-3 golf courses on the West Coast of the United States, located alongside the Pacific Ocean in southwest Oregon, just north of the city of Bandon.
Courses
The first course at ...
, titled the No. 1 Golf Resort in North America by ''Golf Digest
''Golf Digest'' is a monthly golf magazine published by Warner Bros. Discovery through its TNT Sports unit. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. The magazine started by John F. ...
'' and ''Golf Magazine
''Golf Magazine'' is a monthly golf magazine. One of the first "special interest" magazines of its kind, it was started in April 1959 by Arnold Abramson and Robert Abramson, the owners of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation, who sol ...
''; The Glen Club; Desert Willow Golf Resort; Chambers Bay
Chambers Bay is a public golf course on Puget Sound southwest of Tacoma, Washington, United States, in the city of University Place. The British links-style course is owned by Pierce County and opened for play on June 23, 2007. It hosted the U. ...
, host of the 2010 U.S. Amateur
The United States Amateur Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Amateur, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for amateur golfers. It is organized by the United States Golf Association and is currently held each August ov ...
and the 2015 U.S. Open U.S. Open or US Open are open championship sporting tournaments that are hosted in the United States and in which anyone, especially amateur and professional, or American and non-American, may compete. The term may also be applied to non-sporting ev ...
.; and owns Streamsong Golf Resort.
KemperSports was named the Club Management Company of the Year in 2012 by BoardRoom magazine.
References
External links
*{{official website, http://www.kempersports.com
Hospitality companies of the United States
Golf in Illinois
Sports in Cook County, Illinois