Elgin Country ClubSporting Club in Elgin, IL

On March the 26th, 1901 at a meeting in a downtown Elgin office 32 men pledged charter membership to a proposed Elgin Country Club. A week later they had 82 charter members. On April first, 1901 the club officially organized with all formal arrangements completed. They leased an 80 acre portion of Weld farm at $2 per acre for 5 years; and sent for Tom Bendelow, the golf course architect. They cleared over 50 trees, built fairways, traps, greens, and built a $1500 Club House with dining room and showers.