For the course in Kansas see: Mission Hills Country Club (Kansas)

Mission Hills Country Club (Kansas)

The Mission Hills Country Club is a private club and golf course in Mission Hills, Kansas.The Club, on the banks and hills of Brush Creek, was founded on June 30, 1914, largely through the efforts of J.C. Nichols, who was also developing the upscale planned community of Mission Hills...

The Mission Hills Country Club is a country club

Country club

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 located in Rancho Mirage, California

Rancho Mirage, California

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, United States

United States

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. Among the facilities at the club are 3 championship golf course

Golf course

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s, 27 tennis court

Tennis court

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s of various surfaces, a spa

Spa

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 and sports center.

Since 1972, Mission Hills has played host to the annual Kraft Nabisco Championship

Kraft Nabisco Championship

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, one of the four major championships

Women's major golf championships

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 in women's professional golf

Golf

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. It was also the venue for the 1978

1978 Davis Cup

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 Davis Cup

Davis Cup

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 tennis final matches.

Mission Hills Country Club has been owned by ClubCorp since 1993.

Golf

The first golf course at Mission Hills Country Club opened in 1972 and was designed by Desmond Muirhead. It is over this course, now known as the Dinah Shore Tournament Course, that the Kraft Nabisco Championship is played.

The second course was designed by golf legend Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer

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 and opened in 1979. A third course was added in 1988, and originally called the Dinah Shore Course, but with Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore

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's name being transferred to the old course after her death in 1994, was renamed as the Pete Dye Challenge Course.