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History of Glen View Club

Jock played in 18 U.S. Opens, with When Professor William Caldwell
eight top-ten finishes. He won 14 offered his suggestion about forming
events on the PGA Tour, including two a private golf club to his gentlemen
Western Opens. He won the inaugural associates in Evanston, he could not
PGA Seniors Championship in 1937 possibly have known how seriously they
and made two appearances in the would take to the idea or how that club
Masters — eventually becoming the would help shape the expanding
tournament’s honorary starter from 1963 landscape of golf.
to 1973. The affable Jock Hutchison
passed away in 1977, in Evanston, at
the age of 93.
Two in the White House
Jock Hutchison c. 1921 bringing the Claret Jug As the popularity of golf spread to every
back from Scotland to America corner of the country, two sitting
Chick and his wife, Esther, enjoyed a presidents accepted invitations to
regular presence and many friends at become members of Glen View Club.
Glen View Club until their deaths — William Howard
she in 1967, and he in 1979 at age 89. Taft’s presidency
His final round of golf was played at ended in 1913 and
Glen View, when he purportedly made he remained a
a birdie on the 18th hole by holing a member in good
25-yard wedge shot.
standing until his
Jock was another native of St. Andrews, death in 1930.
Scotland. He had come to the U.S. a Warren G. Golfers and caddies standing at the first tee, c. 1898.
few years earlier to work at Allegheny Harding died
Country Club, near Pittsburgh. During William Howard Taft while in office Strong Ties to the
1916, he had been runner-up in the in 1923, also as Western Golf Association
inaugural PGA Championship. a member in
good standing. In 1890, golf in the United States was
Perhaps more than any person ever being played on approximately 50
employed at Glen View, Jock Hutchison Charles Gates different playing fields, most of them
became a revered fixture — serving the Dawes, who a handful of holes and none a full 18.
membership for 35 years, until 1953. served as vice By 1900, the number of full-scale golf
His round of 64 would stand as president under courses was approaching 1,000, with the
course record for many years, but Calvin Coolidge majority east of the Alleghenies. In the
his accomplishments elsewhere were until 1929, joined East, each new season brought more
what placed him in the Hall of Fame. Warren G. Harding Glen View Club tournament events to determine the
He won scores of tournaments during shortly after top golfers from various geographies.
an illustrious career, but he is best leaving office. So as golf proliferated around Chicago
remembered for two. In 1920, he Chairing a large and areas west of the Alleghenies, 11
claimed the PGA Championship. Chicago bank, Chicago-area golf clubs formed the
Then, in 1921, he won the Open he resided in Western Golf Association (WGA) to
Championship played at St. Andrews — Evanston and host championships in the West and
becoming the first champion of golf’s remained a promote interest in the game. Four of
most historic tournament to reside on member until his those charter clubs are still in existence
American soil. He competed in only one death in 1951. — Evanston Golf Club, Skokie Country
other Open, defending his title the Club, Onwentsia Club and Glen
following year and finishing fourth. Charles Gates Dawes View Club.

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