Aurora Country Club
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Aurora Country Club is an 18-hole golf course located in Aurora, Illinois
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The original clubhouse was a stone farmhouse remodeled. The clubhouse burned down in 1941.
Tom Bendelow
and William B. Langford collaborated on the 18 hole layout. A. W. Tillinghast
provided redesign work in 1935.
The course is 6,644 yards from the longest tees, par of 72. The course rating is 72.9 and a slope rating of 133.
Aurora, Illinois
Aurora is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the 112th largest city in the United States. A suburb of Chicago, located west of the Loop, its population in 2010 was 197,899. Originally founded within Kane County, Aurora's city limits have expanded greatly over the past...
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The original clubhouse was a stone farmhouse remodeled. The clubhouse burned down in 1941.
Tom Bendelow
Tom Bendelow
Tom Bendelow , nicknamed "The Johnny Appleseed of American Golf", was a prolific Scottish American golf course architect during the first half of the twentieth century. He is credited with having designed some 600 courses in a 35-year span....
and William B. Langford collaborated on the 18 hole layout. A. W. Tillinghast
A. W. Tillinghast
Albert Warren "Tillie" Tillinghast was a noted American golf course architect. Tillinghast was one of the most prolific architects in the history of golf; he worked on no fewer than 265 different courses....
provided redesign work in 1935.
The course is 6,644 yards from the longest tees, par of 72. The course rating is 72.9 and a slope rating of 133.