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The Western Amateur Heads Home to Glen View Club
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One of the world’s oldest golf
championships is returning to its
birthplace as Glen View Club in
Golf, Illinois hosts the Western Golf
Association’s 119th Western Amateur
this Monday through Saturday.

First held at Glen View Club in 1899,

the Western Amateur features one of
the deepest and strongest fields in
amateur golf, as well as the game’s most

grueling format. It is the world’s third
oldest amateur championship, behind
only the British Amateur (1885) and
the U.S. Amateur (1895), and attracts The 18th hole view from the clubhouse
top-ranked players from around the prestigious championship back to these That group represents the best players
world. Past Western Amateur
champions include Jack Nicklaus, historic grounds, and we’re happy to be in amateur golf. The collective
Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ben back at a club that holds such special accomplishments of the Western
meaning for us.”
Amateur’s Sweet Sixteen include 14
Crenshaw, Justin Leonard, Curtis
Strange and Chick Evans. Glen View Club also hosted the 1902 PGA TOUR wins during the 2019–20
Glen View Club was one of 11 Chicago- U.S. Amateur and the 1904 U.S. Open. season, 27 major championships since
2000 and 18 PGA TOUR Player of the
Its classic layout shows the influence
area clubs that came together to form
the WGA in 1899. Later that year, of legends of golf architecture, like Year Awards since 1990.
the club hosted the WGA’s first two Richard Leslie, Herbert J. Tweedie, “There’s no question that the players
championships — the Western Amateur, Tom Bendelow, Harry Colt, Donald teeing it up here at Glen View Club
Ross and William Flynn. this week represent the future stars of
won by David Forgan, and the Western
Open, won by Willie Smith. The The Western Amateur’s combination golf,” said Scott Buhl, Glen View Club’s
Western Amateur returned in 1905, of stroke play and match play president. “We’re thrilled to be hosting
when H. Chandler Egan was the winner. competition makes it one of the the 119th Western Amateur and
looking forward to a great week for
“We are honored to bring the Western most demanding events in golf. The our membership as Glen View Club
Amateur back to Glen View Club,” international field of 156 players will once again tests the finest amateur
said Vince Pellegrino, WGA senior compete in 72 holes of stroke play over players in the world.”
vice president of tournaments. “We can three days to determine the “Sweet
trace the origin of the WGA and this Sixteen” for match play. In addition to playing a role in the
founding of the WGA, the Glen View
Club has been a committed supporter

of the Evans Scholars Foundation.
Established in 1930 by Chick Evans —
a Glen View member — and the WGA,
the Foundation has awarded full tuition
and housing college scholarships to more
than 12,000 caddies, including 1,045
students who are currently in school.

Eighty-seven of those recipients caddied
at Glen View Club, including seven
Evans Scholars attending leading

Glen View Club clubhouse universities nationwide this year.

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