• Onwentsia Club is an 18-hole golf course in the central United States, located in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. In Lake County, the...
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  • Newspapers.com. Society has taken great interest in 'tennis week' at the Onwentsia club.... Miss Ginevra King... play excellent games. West, James L. W. (September...
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    alcoholic consumption. Country clubs became important centers of social activity in Lake Forest's early decades. The Onwentsia Club was, in the words of one...
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  • played on October 4, 1895, on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. It was a 36-hole competition and was played in...
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  • States House of Representatives (1871-1876, 1881-1883), cofounder of the Onwentsia Club, owner of XIT Ranch Susan Garrett, Illinois Senate state senator representing...
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  • Anderson signed with the Onwentsia Club in Chicago to be their pro for the 1906 season but only stayed one season. Moving from club to club, he died suddenly...
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    Charles Blair Macdonald (category Golf clubs and courses designed by Charles B. Macdonald)
    Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest, Illinois, and also laid out (along with H.J.Whigham and Herbert Tweedie) the first nine holes at Exmoor Country Club of...
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  • Golf Club, Carmel, Indiana East Potomac, Washington D.C. (Future) Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Illinois Pasatiempo, California San Francisco Golf Club, California...
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    their parents at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. Both her father and mother had been club champions. Edith had won the club championship in 1918...
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     Scotland Willie Anderson Myopia Hunt Club South Hamilton, Massachusetts 314 n/a 1906  Scotland Alex Smith Onwentsia Club Lake Forest, Illinois 295 n/a 1907...
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    was played at Newport Country Club and was won by William G. Lawrence, and the other took place at Saint Andrew's Golf Club and was won by Laurence B. Stottard...
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    Newspapers.com. Society has taken great interest in 'tennis week' at the Onwentsia club.... Miss Ginevra King... play excellent games. Stepanov, Renata (September...
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    1900s. Egan came to prominence in his teens when he was playing at Onwentsia Club and attending University School on the north side of Chicago. He helped...
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  • Forest  The 1906 U.S. Open was the twelfth U.S. Open, held June 28–29 at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. Alex Smith won...
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  • Dunes Golf Resort is slated to host in 2035 and 2045. Oakland Hills Country Club is slated to host in 2038. Source U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship,...
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  • The Philadelphia Cricket Club, founded in 1854, is the oldest country club in the United States. It has two locations: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and...
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  • year. Other notable founding clubs included Chicago Golf Club, Skokie Country Club, Onwentsia Club, and Evanston Golf Club. The par-72 golf course at Glen...
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    was a member of the Onwentsia Club, Old Elm Club, Chicago Club, Rock Island clubs, and was a board governor of the Lawsonia Club. Jack Cady at Olympedia...
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    the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. This was part of a deal that allowed Vardon to enter that year's U.S. Open held at Englewood Golf Club, New...
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    Wing Park Golf Course (category Golf clubs and courses in Illinois)
    first golf course, the Onwentsia Club, in the Chicago area in Lake Forest in 1892. A year later, he built the Chicago Golf Club, the nation's first 18-hole...
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  • British ^ Won both in same year. Saucon Valley Country Club is slated to host in 2038. Canterbury Golf Club is slated to host in 2039. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort...
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  • held at Glen View Club in Golf, Illinois. The location has varied since, with the most events held at Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club near Benton Harbor...
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    century for some of the Chicago area's wealthiest residents. The Onwentsia Club, a country club to which most of the district's residents belonged, was the...
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  • Arcadia Publishing. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-4671-4322-6. The Onwentsia Club. The Club. 1899. p. 50. "Onwentsia Golf Attracts Many". Chicago Tribune. 1916-09-08....
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  • on July 8, 1930, at the age of 17. She was thrown from her horse at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois and suffered injuries from the runaway horse...
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    in 1902 and 1903. Mackenzie had a brief spell as professional at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. During his time there he played in the U.S...
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  • that was clarified to try and squash rumors that were circling at the Onwentsia Club and in society. After the contract was agreed upon, Margaret began staying...
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  • USGA), which itself had grown from a senior amateur event at the Apawamis Club in 1905. Membership in this precursor tournament was limited, so the USGA...
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    (1870–1918), who married author Hobart Chatfield-Taylor. Rose founded the Onwentsia Club one her father's estate. After a long illness, Farwell died in Lake...
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    for the U.S. Open title. Smith's 1906 U.S. Open victory came at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. His 72-hole score of 295 was the lowest at...
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