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Medinah Country Club: Chicago Shriners
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Located in a Chicago suburb, west of O'Hare Airport, Medinah Country Club is one of the most prominent clubs in America. The club has three golf courses, simply named No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, and has hosted many major events on its No. 3 course.
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In the early 1920's a group of Shriners from Chicago's Medinah Temple had a dream to create a country retreat. Their goal was to build the best country club in North America with a 54-hole golf complex and a variety of other recreational activities. They selected several parcels of land in an area then known as Meacham, in northern DuPage County, which was once owned by the Meacham, Lawrence and Rosenwinkel families. Tom Bendelow, a world-renowned golf course architect from Scotland, was retained to design the golf courses. In September of 1925, the Shriners enjoyed their first round of golf at Medinah on Course #1. Construction on Course #2 was completed a year later.
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The community of Medinah is named after the Medinah Country Club. In the 1920s, a group of members of the city of Chicago's Medinah Temple (affiliated with the Shriners) moved into the area, then known as Meacham (for the Meacham, Lawrence and Rosenwinkel families). Together, they built a country retreat and 54-hole golf course, aiming to make it the best golf course in North America. The club had 1,500 members in the late 1920's; the Great Depression and World War II drove membership down until the postwar period, when membership recovered to the present-day 600.[1]
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Medinah Country Club was founded by Shriners whose Chicago meeting place was called the Medinah Temple. When they decided to establish their own private club in what was, in the 1920s, countryside but is now the suburbs of Chicago, they decided the Medinah name was one they'd stick with.
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Charles Hamilton putts at the Medinah Country Club in suburban Medinah. The $3 million Moorish marvel was built by the Chicago Shriners in the 1920s to be the world’s most elaborate, largest country club.
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