Major championship golf returned to Bellerive in 2004 when our club played host to the U.S. Senior Open. Peter Jacobsen won his first major by besting a stellar field of competition.
Bellerive is a long course, measuring 7,547 yards (6,901 m) from the championship tees and 6,976 yards (6,379 m) from the members' tees, at par 72. However, the 10th hole is often played as a par 4 in professional events, making the course a par 71. Bellerive has a course and slope rating of 76. 3/141 from the championship tees.
Bellerive is a long course, measuring 7,547 yards (6,901 m) from the championship tees and 6,976 yards (6,379 m) from the members' tees, at par 72. However, the 10th hole is often played as a par 4 in professional events, making the course a par 71.
The best of St. Louis was on display as the best golfers in the world came to Bellerive to contend for the Wanamaker Trophy and “Glory’s Last Shot". The excitement was palpable and, for those who were there, will be felt forever.
Membership to Bel Air Country Club costs $13,500 with $85 for dues every month. The annual cost is equivalent to $163,020. Membership is via invite only, and guests have to be accompanied by members at all times. However, other sources indicate that the initiation fee for Bel Air Country Club costs $150,000.
Members Often described as the most clubby of the seven, Bel-Air boasts Jack Nicholson (who also belongs to Lakeside), Roger Birnbaum, Quaid, Luke Wilson, Leslie Moonves, WME's Patrick Whitesell, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Wagner, Chuck Lorre, CBS' Armando Nunez, Tom Rothman, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise (who's known for ...
120-acreThe Bel-Air Country Club, which attracted rich and famous personalities such as Fred Astaire, Spencer Tracy, Howard Hughes and Johnny Carson, is well known for its “swinging bridge” on the golf course. A membership at the 120-acre club costs an initial fee of $75,000 and $300 a month.
Cypress Point Golf Club in Pebble Beach, Calif., and the Los Angeles Country Club were selected by Billionaire.com as two of the 10 most exclusive golf courses in the world.
Experts estimate the annual dues at a minimum of $25,000 although there have been previous reports setting it at $40,000. Actually, the fee requirement may be the easiest hurdle for the potential members. You can't really be an applicant to the Riviera on your own.
about $45,000At 3,600 strong, Jonathan Club has the largest membership, and all of its beach club members ("lots of attorneys and doctors," says one observer) also belong to its downtown club, with an initiation fee of about $45,000 plus monthly fees of about $500.
The Beverly Hills home is one of two where Hughes crashed a plane. This case was in 1946, when his prototype XH-11 Aircraft started leaking oil. The aviator, filmmaker and manufacturer attempted to land on a nearby golf course, but he plowed into the back of the residence instead—an accident that nearly killed him.
tycoon Noboru WatanabeToday Riviera is owned by Japanese real-estate tycoon Noboru Watanabe, who paid $108 million in 1989 to the descendants of L.A. Athletic Club founder Garbutt. It was a small price to pay for one of American golf's true national treasures.
Bellerive Country Club began in 1897 in north St. Louis as a nine-hole course with 166 members. In 1910, the membership incorporated as Bellerive Country Club, naming the club after Louis St. Ange De Bellerive, the last French commander in North America.
South African Gary Player won the event, and completed the career grand slam, by defeating Kel Nagle in a playoff after the two had tied at two-over-par. Player then donated his winning check to cancer research and junior golf. The ’65 Open was the first of many national and world championships to be held at Bellerive.
In 2008, Bellerive hosted the BMW Championship, as part of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, in which Camilo Villegas had his first career tour victory. In August of 2018, Bellerive had the distinct honor to play host to the 100th PGA Championship.
Nick Price captured his first major by winning the PGA Championship here in 1992. The 2001 American Express World Golf Championship, scheduled for September of that year, was cancelled due to the events of 9-11. Major championship golf returned to Bellerive in 2004 when our club played host to the U.S. Senior Open.
Peter Jacobsen won his first major by besting a stellar field of competition. The golf course then underwent a year-long renovation and reopened in October, 2006. Rees Jones, son of original architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr., was entrusted with this project.
That same year, Scotsman Robert Foulis designed the “new Bellerive” in Normandy where the club remained for 50 years. Led by Hord Hardin and Clark Gamble, the membership decided to move west in 1955, and allowed renowned architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr. to pick a prime farm location for the new site. The “Green Monster of Ladue” opened on Memorial ...
18. Bellerive Country Club started out as a 9-hole course way back in 1897 and in those days the club was located in north St Louis and was called the St Louis Field Club. Thirteen years later the club changed its name to Bellerive after Louis St Ange De Bellerive, the last French commander to be stationed in North America.
In 1965, after being open for a mere five years, Bellerive became the youngest course to host the US Open and the “Black Knight”, Gary Player , won the event after an exciting playoff with Kel Nagle. Bellerive also hosted the 1992 USPGA Championship which Zimbabwean Nick Price won.
Bellerive also hosted the 1992 USPGA Championship which Zimbabwean Nick Price won. In 2006 a new renovated Bellerive opened after a Rees Jones makeover. It somehow seems appropriate that the “Open Doctor” son of original architect Robert Trent Jones was enlisted.
Yes, the just concluded PGA Championship made for great golf theater. It helps when you have a leaderboard that has Tiger Woods playing a starring role and where the eventual winner -- Brook Koepka -- wins his second major in 2018 and 3rd overall in the last 6 majors when he's competed.
Bellerive seems like it was built for him, with most of the holes featuring a right-to-left power game. Now add Mother Nature’s touch that has produced soft conditions and that’s a perfect combo for the four-time major champion. Remember, all four of his major victories came on soft golf courses. And he’s contended in his last two starts — a tie for second in the British Open and a tie for sixth in the Bridgestone Invitational. He wins his third Wanamaker Trophy.
10. Tiger Woods: Play at Carnoustie, not even a course that “fits his eye,” suggests Woods is inching back into his old form. He didn’t play Bellerive in the 2008 BMW due to injury, but it’s clear he has the power to handle what is a much longer course than in past tournaments here.