6/4/2023 0 Comments Cog hill golf course![]() I have played from the tips (not very much fun), and I have played a few tees up from there. I am one of those who thinks that the $150 is worth every penny, and I enjoy playing #4 as often as possible. At $150 a person, no twilight rates, no weekday rates, and some of the toughest greens in the area, some players will love Dubs, and others will think that they paid too much. A private course for the public joes in Chicago. Every PGA Tour event ever played at Cog Hill has been on course #4, and it is truly one of the toughest and most beautifully kept in the Chicago Land area. Obviously #4 Dubs Dread is the most popular, and by far the most expensive. ![]() Instead of writing about each course individually I wanted to write about all four together. Tiger Woods shot a course record 9 under 62 on Dubsdread in 2009. It changed its name to the BMW Championship in 2007. The Western Golf Association awarded the Western Open to Cog Hill in 1991. Course #3 was added in 1963 and Dubsdread was completed in 1964. Even during the tough twelve years of the depression Cog Hill was able to prosper. It was opened in the fall of 1929, within days of Wall Street Crash of 1929. Course #2 was designed and built by David McIntosh and Bert Coghill. The club expanded in 1929 when the three brothers bought another 160 acres (0.65 km 2) from the Reed Family on the east side of Parker Road. The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway ran from Chicago to Lemont giving golfers easy access for 25 cents. ![]() ![]() Reservations for golf were taken at the Boston Store, which, at that time, was one of the downtown Chicago’s leading department stores. Cog Hill Course #1 opened on the Fourth of July weekend in 1927. They then hired David McIntosh, who owned Oak Hills, to build them a golf course. 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. Three brothers moved to the Chicago area in 1920. Cog Hill is one of Chicago’s premier golf courses, it is rich with golf history, home to the Western Open and then the BMW Championship, and easily the #1 public golf course in Illinois (I know that is a mighty statement, but I stand firmly behind it). ![]()
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