The History of Olympia Fields Country Club is as interesting a tale as the club itself... 
Olympia Fields Country Club was founded in 1915 by a group of investors headed by prominent Chicago businessman Charles Beach. Beach found a suitable site alongside the Illinois Central Railroad line some twenty-five miles south of downtown Chicago and appointed Amos Alonzo Stagg, the legendary University of Chicago football coach, as the first President of the club. The club eventually purchased a total of twenty farms spread over a 674 acres parcel of topographically diverse land....click to read more

As would be expected with a US Open Host, Olympia Fields Country Club has its fair share of press... 
The eyes of the world were on Olympia Fields Country Club in 2003, when she hosted the largest golf tornament in the world, the US Open.  But Olympia Fields is so much more - with their South Course Resoration Project, Fighting Illini Colegiate Tournament, and unsurpassed food service, the press has always found a story at this 36-hole gem...click to read more