Bryn Mawr Country Club

Bryn Mawr Country Club operates on a piece of Lincolnwood, Illinois Chicago northwest suburban land. The course is part of the broader Chicago-area country-club landscape and was designed during the early-1900s Chicago expansion of organized club golf. The original routing has been redesigned multiple times since the late-1800s/early-1900s opening, with significant work through subsequent decades and continuing agronomic-and-architectural updates.

The course plays around 6,500 yards par 70 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's age and the mature tree canopy give the course defense that modern equipment doesn't overcome through length alone. The fairways play firm given the Illinois prairie subsoil. The mature deciduous canopy through the property has grown to championship-narrowing dimensions over the club's century-plus history.

Bryn Mawr Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Chicago northwest-suburban business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's early-1900s founding. The hospitality model is traditional country club, and the club has stayed largely outside the destination-private trend.

Chicago suburban climate gives Bryn Mawr a playing season of April through October. The course closes through Chicago winter and reopens when the soil thaws — typically late April. The mature tree canopy through the property gives the routing a parkland character distinct from the more open Chicago-area suburban courses, and the autumn color through October is part of the seasonal photographic signature.