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North Shore Country Club: Course Intelligence
Donald Ross designed North Shore Country Club in 1920 on a piece of Glenview, Illinois land north of Chicago — one of his three Chicago-area commissions across the 1910s and early 1920s alongside Skokie (1904) and Old Elm (1914). The site sits in the Skokie River watershed, and Ross routed the eighteen holes through gentle prairie-and-creek terrain with the natural drainage as the strategic-design framework. The course has been redesigned multiple times since, with the most significant modern work focused on bunker restoration and green-complex preservation rather than corridor redesign.
The course plays around 6,800 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. North Shore hosted the 1933 U.S. Open (Johnny Goodman, the last amateur to win the championship). Goodman's victory at North Shore came during the same calendar year that he reached the U.S. Amateur semifinals — making him one of the most-prominent amateur figures of the post-Bobby Jones era. The seventeenth hole is a 432-yard par-4 with a tee shot played over the Skokie River; the eighteenth, a 405-yard par-4 with a green set on a natural rise above the clubhouse, has decided multiple regional championships staged on the routing.
North Shore is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Chicago North Shore business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's early-1900s founding. The Ross architectural pedigree and the 1933 U.S. Open history are part of the institutional identity. The hospitality model is traditional country club.
Chicago North Shore climate gives North Shore Country Club a playing season of April through October. The course closes through Chicago winter and reopens when the soil thaws. The Skokie River corridor through the property provides reliable groundwater that keeps the fairways green through summer heat. The mature tree canopy keeps the routing cooler in mid-summer than the open Glenview area courses.
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