Bellerive Country Club

Bellerive Country Club is a storied private club in Town and Country, Missouri, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and later renovated by Rees Jones. The course has hosted three major championships, including the 2018 PGA Championship.

Bellerive Country Club traces its origins to 1897, when a group of St. Louis sportsmen founded The Field Club as a nine-hole course in north St. Louis. In 1910, following incorporation as Bellerive Country Club — named after Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, the last French lieutenant governor of Illinois — the club relocated to Normandy, Missouri, where Scottish architect and professional Robert Foulis designed a new 18-hole course on leased land. By the late 1950s, the club had outgrown its Normandy location and made the ambitious decision to relocate southwest to a sprawling property in the suburb of Town and Country. Robert Trent Jones Sr., then the most prominent golf course architect in the world, was commissioned to design the new layout. The course opened on Memorial Day in 1960 and immediately announced itself as a championship-caliber venue, measuring over 7,500 yards from the back tees with demanding par values and strategic water hazards. Bellerive wasted no time establishing its place in major championship history. The club hosted the 1965 U.S. Open, won by Gary Player, making it one of the youngest courses ever to stage the national championship. The PGA Championship followed in 1992, claimed by Nick Price, further cementing Bellerive's reputation as a outstanding tournament venue. In 2005-06, the entire course underwent a comprehensive renovation directed by Rees Jones, who lengthened and modernized the layout while respecting the strategic bones of his father's original design. Further refinements came in 2013 with improved sight lines and the addition of championship bunker sand. The club's crowning moment in the modern era came at the 2018 PGA Championship, when Brooks Koepka posted a record-equaling 72-hole score of 264 to finish two strokes ahead of Tiger Woods in a notably electrifying finishes in major championship history. The event showcased Bellerive at its finest — a relentless test that demanded precision and power in equal measure. Today, Bellerive Country Club stands as a notably distinguished private clubs in the American Midwest, a venue whose championship pedigree spans more than half a century and whose commitment to excellence continues to honor the vision of Robert Trent Jones Sr.7 and slope of 141 on a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design in Town and Country, Missouri that has hosted two United States Opens, a PGA Championship, and the 2018 PGA Championship — one of golf's four major championships. Jones designed the course in 1960 as a showcase for his philosophy of championship golf design, creating a layout whose length, strategic demands, and conditioning standards have consistently satisfied the requirements of the United States Golf Association and PGA of America for their most important championships. The 1965 U.S. Open, won by Gary Player, and the 1992 U.S. Open were both contested at Bellerive, giving the course a major championship record that places it in the company of the most significant venues in American golf history. The 2018 PGA Championship — won by Brooks Koepka in a performance that announced his arrival as one of the game's dominant major champions — returned professional golf's top level to Bellerive and confirmed that the course, updated by Rees Jones, remains capable of hosting accomplished professional competition in the modern era. The Missouri Golf Association maintains Bellerive among its member facilities, and the private membership at this Town and Country club provides members the extraordinary experience of playing a multi-major-championship venue as their home course. For the Bellerive membership, the club represents private golf at its most historically significant — a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design whose major championship legacy connects members to the permanent record of golf's most important competitive history.