Hinsdale Golf Club
Hinsdale
was created in late 1893 or early 1894 when twenty men,
impressed with the newly introduced game of golf, laid out a
rudimentary six-hole golf course in a pasture.
In 1899, the Club moved from the original course to
an eighty acre tract of rolling pasture land.
On this parcel of land, the Club built a nine-hole
golf course as well as a clubhouse. Within
about two years of building the course, the Club expanded to
a full eighteen holes. The Western Open Championship of the
Western Golf Association was played on this course in 1907.
By the new
millennium, modern golf technology and time had taken their
toll on the great course. As a great student and
admirer of the Golden Era period of golf design, it
was a thrill for Billy to restore Hinsdale. He
researched old maps and interviewed members who had played
the course for decades.
The eighteenth holes is
representative of the changes he designed. He shifted
the centerline, reshaping the fairway with 10,000 cubic
yards of fairway and slope. New trees were planted
inside the dogleg and a new bunker strategy was employed to
return this hole to its former strategic feel.
