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Cog Hill Golf & Country Club

Cog Hill
Club information
Location	Lemont, Illinois United States
Established	1927
Type	Public
Owned by	Jemsek Golf
Operated by	Jemsek Golf
Total holes	72
Tournaments hosted	BMW Championship, 2007, 2009-2011 Western Open, 1991-2006
Website	Cog Hill Golf & Country Club
Course #1 Blue
Par	71
Length	6,282 yards (5,744 m)
Course rating	69.7
Course #2 Ravines
Par	72
Length	6,608 yards (6,042 m)
Course rating	71.1
Course #3 Red
Par	72
Length	6,402 yards (5,854 m)
Course rating	69.7
Course #4 Dubsdread
Designed by	Dick Wilson, Joe Lee
Par	71
Length	7554
Course rating	77.8
Course Record	62 (Tiger Woods, September 12, 2009)[1]

Cog Hill Golf & Country Club is a public golf complex located 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Chicago. Cog Hill hosts the PGA Tour's BMW Championship from 2009 to 2011 on its championship course Dubsdread.

History

Three brothers moved to the Chicago area in 1920. John W., Martin J., and Bert Coghill bought the McLaughlin farm on the east side of Lemont Illinois in 1926 to build a golf club. They then hired David McIntosh, who owned Oak Hills, to build them a golf course. Cog Hill Course #1 open July 4th weekend in 1927. Reservations for golf were taken at the Boston Store, which, at that time, was one of the downtown Chicago's leading department stores. The Chicago & Joliet Electric streetcar ran from Chicago to Lemont giving golfers easy access for 25 cents. The club expanded in 1929 when the three brothers bought another 160 acres (0.65 km²) from the Reed Family on the east side of Parker Road. Course #2 was designed and built by David McIntosh and Bert Coghill. It was opened in the fall of 1929, within days of Wall Street Crash of 1929. Even during the tough twelve years of the depression Cog Hill was able to prosper. In 1951, Joe Jemsek bought Cog Hill. Course #3 was added in 1963 and Dubsdread was completed in 1964. The Western Golf Association awarded the Western Open to Cog Hill in 1991. It changed its name to the BMW Championship in 2007. Tiger Woods shot a course record 9 under 62 on Dubsdread in 2009.^[1]

Hole in One

http://www.coghillgolf.com/about/hole_in_one.asp

Tournaments

Major championships held at Cog Hill's Dubsdread course.

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship will also be held at Cog Hill in 2010 and 2011.

Year	Player	Country	Score	To Par	Margin	Earnings ($)
2009	Tiger Woods	United States	68-67-62-68=265	–19	8	1,350,000
2007	Tiger Woods	United States	67-67-65-63=262	–22	2	1,260,000

Western Open

Year	Player	Country	Score	To Par	Margin	Earnings ($)
2006	Trevor Immelman	South Africa	69-66-69-67=271	-13	2	900,000
2005	Jim Furyk	United States	64-70-67-69=270	-14	2	900,000
2004	Stephen Ames	Canada	67-73-64-70=274	-10	2	864,000
2003	Tiger Woods	United States	63-70-65-69=267	-21	5	810,000
2002	Jerry Kelly	United States	67-69-68-65=269	-19	2	720,000
2001	Scott Hoch	United States	69-68-66-64=267	-21	1	648,000
2000	Robert Allenby	Australia	69-69-68-68=274	-14	0	540,000
1999	Tiger Woods	United States	68-66-68-71=273	-15	3	450,000
1998	Joe Durant	United States	68-67-70-66=271	-17	2	396,000
1997	Tiger Woods	United States	67-72-68-68=275	-13	3	360,000
1996	Steve Stricker	United States	65-69-67-69=270	-18	8	360,000
1995	Billy Mayfair	United States	73-70-69-67=279	-9	1	360,000
1994	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	67-67-72-71=277	-11	1	216,000
1993	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	64-71-67-67=269	-19	5	216,000
1992	Ben Crenshaw	United States	70-72-65-69=276	-12	2	198,000
1991	Russ Cochran	United States	66-72-68-69=275	-13	2	180,000

U.S. Amateur Championship

Year	Player	Country	Score	Runner-up
1997	Matt Kuchar	United States	2 & 1	Joel Kribel

U.S. Men's Amateur Public Links

Year	Player	Country	Score	Runner-up
1989	Tim Hobby	United States	4 & 3	Henry Cagigal
1970	Robert Risch	United States	293	Mike Zimmerman

U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links

Year	Player	Country	Score	Runner-up
1987	Tracy Kerdyk	United States	4 & 3	Pearl Sinn

Courses

Course #1 Blue

Course #1 is the oldest course at Cog Hill. The Blue course was designed and built in 1927. Green Fees are $61 on weekends and $53 on weekdays including a golf cart.

Course #2 Ravines

Course #2 Ravines was designed and built in 1929. Ravines was adjusted for to host the 1997 United States Amateur Championship. Green Fees are $73 with cart.

1. Rated 4-Stars by Golf Digest
2. Rated as one of "America's 100 Best Courses for $100 or Less" by Golf Digest Course & Travel Magazine
3. Dubsdread #4 & Ravines #2 ranked as one of the "Ten Best Two-Course Combinations in the World" by Links Magazine
4. Selected as one of "Favorite Classic Courses (Green Fees Under $125)" by PGA Professionals Guide to Travel
5. Hole #4 selected "Favorite Short Par 3" by PGA Professionals Guide to Travel

Course #3 Red

In 1963 Cog Hill added Course #3. Green Fees are $61 on weekends and $53 on weekdays including a golf cart.

Course #4 Dubsdread

Dubsdread was designed and built by Joseph L. Lee/Dick Wilson in 1964. From September 2007 to September 2008, renowned golf course architect Rees Jones oversaw a renovation project to update the challenges envisioned in the original design of Dick Wilson and Joe Lee. Golfers now face 18 new greens with Sub-Air Systems, redesigned and repositioned sand bunkers, a risk-reward pond on Hole 7, additional tee options, and a 497-yd. par 4 finishing hole featuring a green moved perilously close to the nearby pond.

Green fee to play Dubsdread is $150.

Sources

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Notes and references

External links

• Official site
• Online Reservation

Coordinates: 41°40′36″N 87°57′06″W / 41.676693°N 87.951651°W / 41.676693; -87.951651