Ray Hearn

Augusta, MI

Scottish-inspired links design in southwest Michigan

Romeoville, IL

Mistwood Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Romeoville, Illinois, owned by the late Jim McWethy. The course underwent an extensive multi-year renovation led by architect Ray Hearn that updated bunkers, tees, fairways, greens and drainage, introducing revetted pot bunkers uncommon on American courses. Mistwood has long served as home to the Illinois Women's Open and remains a prominent public course in the Chicago area.

Saint Charles, IL

Pottawatomie Golf Course is a 9-hole, par-35 St. Charles Park District course along the Fox River. Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed it in 1939, and it holds his first island green. The river comes into play on four holes, the fairways are wide and tree-lined, and there are three sets of tees. There is no driving range.

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.

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.