Golf in Olympia Fields

Olympia Fields is a small Cook County village whose name appears in the annals of American golf history. Olympia Fields Country Club has hosted two U.S. Open championships and multiple other major events, and its North Course is recognized as one of the finest examples of classic American parkland golf design. The village itself is quiet and residential, with large lots and mature tree canopy that reflect the aspirations of the early twentieth-century developers who established it as a retreat for Chicago's professional and business class along the Illinois Central rail corridor. Illinois' position as a crossroads state (linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi, the industrial north to the agricultural south) creates diverse communities where golf serves as common ground across the state's varied economic landscapes.