Herbert Tweedie

West Frankfort, IL

Franklin County Country Club is in West Frankfort, IL. Its 18-hole course was designed by Longford and Moreau and opened in 1922. The course has Zoysia fairways lined with mature hardwoods, water hazards, bunkers and earth berms. The facility includes a pro shop, driving range and practice green.

Flossmoor, IL · Location not mapped

Flossmoor Country Club is a private club located just outside Flossmoor, Illinois, in Bloom Township. It was founded in 1899 as Homewood Country Club, with a course originally designed by Herbert J. Tweedie, and was one of the first golf clubs established in the Midwest. A 2009 restoration led by architect Raymond Hearn returned several holes to their early character while preserving 14 original hole corridors. The club hosted the 1920 PGA Championship, won by Jock Hutchison, and the 1923 U.S. Amateur. Bobby Jones set a course record of 66 during World War II that stood for more than sixty years. The par-72 course plays 7,136 yards from the back tees over mostly flat front-nine terrain that gives way to a valley on the back nine. The club is private, with access limited to members and their guests.

Golf, IL

Glen View Club was incorporated in March 1897 and opened Chicago's second 18-hole course that year, on ground shaped by the North Branch of the Chicago River. It hosted the Western Open and Western Amateur in 1899, the U.S. Amateur in 1902 and the U.S. Open in 1904. Richard Leslie and Herbert J. Tweedie laid out the original; Tom Bendelow, Harry Colt and Donald Ross all touched it, William Flynn redesigned it and Jim Urbina has restored it. The club sits on roughly 200 acres in the village of Golf.

Midlothian, IL

Midlothian Country Club, founded in 1898 on the Tinley Moraine southwest of Chicago, was the first private golf club on the city's South Side and originally featured its own connecting railroad to the Rock Island line. The course was designed by Herbert J. Tweedie, with later influences attributed to Donald Ross ahead of the club hosting the 1914 U.S. Open, won by Walter Hagen. The layout was updated in 2003 by Ken Killian, Richard Nugent and Bob Lohmann, and underwent a further restoration by architect Raymond Hearn in 2021-2022 that renovated all 82 bunkers and lengthened tees while recreating historic pin positions from the 1920s.

Lake Forest, IL

Onwentsia started as a seven-hole course on Senator Charles B. Farwell's lawn. Charles B. Macdonald built the first nine in 1895, and Herbert J. Tweedie with James and Robert Foulis added the second nine in 1898. Tom Doak and Bruce Hepner have done renovation work since. It hosted the 1906 U.S. Open and remains one of the older North Shore clubs, with racquets and a full social program alongside the golf.

Glencoe, IL

Skokie Country Club is a private club in Glencoe, Illinois, founded in 1897. Tom Bendelow laid out the original 18 holes in 1904, Donald Ross redesigned the course in 1914, and William Langford and Theodore Moreau reworked the layout in 1938 while preserving Ross's design intent. The parkland course plays to a par of 72 at 7,091 yards from the back tees and features varied green complexes across rolling terrain near Lake Michigan's North Shore suburbs. It has hosted national championships including the 1922 U.S. Open, the 1909 and 1952 Western opens, and multiple USGA and Western Amateur events. Skokie holds Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary certification for its environmental management practices. The club is private and open to members and their guests only, with no public access to tee times.