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Conway Farms Golf Club: Course Intelligence
Tom Fazio designed Conway Farms in 1991 on a piece of Lake Forest, Illinois suburban land north of Chicago — the same year he produced Caves Valley in Maryland and Champion Hills in North Carolina. The site sits in a natural prairie-and-woodland transition zone, and Fazio routed the eighteen holes through both biomes with the natural drainage corridors connecting them. The club hosted the BMW Championship (FedEx Cup playoff event) in 2013, 2015, and 2017, putting Conway Farms into the modern Tour rotation during a stretch when the BMW Championship was rotating through top regional venues.
The course plays around 7,294 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. Fazio's signature throughout is the large, contoured green complexes and the generous fairway corridors that demand specific approach angles. The fifth hole is a 559-yard par-5 with a fairway that bends right around a natural prairie stretch; the seventeenth, a 488-yard par-4 with a green set behind a deep cross-bunker complex, has been the deciding hole in multiple BMW Championship editions. Tour scoring averages at Conway Farms run typically in the upper teens under par, which reflects the way Fazio's generous corridor widths allow modern equipment to play to the routing's softer spots.
Conway Farms is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Chicago North Shore business and professional families. The club has invested in continuous tournament-readiness since the BMW Championship rotation began. The 2025 PGA Championship was not scheduled for the routing, but the venue remains in the broader FedEx Cup rotation conversation.
Chicago suburban climate gives Conway Farms a playing season of April through October. The mature woodland canopy keeps the routing cooler in mid-summer than the open Illinois prairie courses. The course closes through Chicago winter and reopens when the soil thaws — typically late April. The autumn color through October is part of the routing's seasonal signature.
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