August 2012

Top Story: Featured Golf Course of the Month: Cantigny Golf Club

Changes to the Woodside Course Make a Great Club Even Better

Many of our local golf courses are part of a park district. As such, they are beautifully manicured and provide their communities with pieces of property that improve everything around them. Not many of these courses, however, can claim to be part of a private trust devoted to agriculture and horticulture, as is the case with the famed Cantigny Park, located in the western Chicago suburb of Winfield.

Cantigny Park and Cantigny Golf Club pronounced (Can-tee’-nee) are operated under a trust of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. (McCormick was the owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.) This is golf course is part of a world-renowned hortic....