Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, MO
Year Opened: 1897
Society Delegate: Tim O’Neill
Website: www.bellerivecc.org

From its inception in 1897 as a nine-hole Field Club in Normandy, MO, Bellerive is now at its third home. Built in 1959 and opened on Memorial Day in 1960, the course was designed by Robert Trent Jones and is affectionately referred to as “The Green Monster of Ladue”. Bellerive showed off the best traits of Jones’ design, and his belief that golf should be a “hard par, but an easy bogey”, with its deep bunkers, ponds, creeks, and undulating greens designed to challenge both the club golfer and seasoned professional.

Bellerive is one of three courses to have hosted all the travelling men’s professional golf championships (U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, PGA Championship, and Senior PGA Championship). Bellerive was also the youngest course to ever host a U.S. Open, won by Gary Player in 1965.

The holes shown below provide examples of Mr. Jones’ design features that were unique to his design philosophies, including deep bunkering, runway-style teeing grounds, and large, challenging greens with severe undulations.