Milwaukee Country Club

Milwaukee Country Club is widely regarded as C.H. Alison's finest original design in America, a masterful routing set along the Milwaukee River in River Hills, Wisconsin. The course is celebrated for its strategic depth and spectacular river setting.

Milwaukee Country Club, founded in 1895 as the first private club in Milwaukee, stands as one of the oldest and most historically significant private golf institutions in the Midwest. Through its earliest years the club occupied several sites on the east side of Milwaukee and in East Milwaukee before settling permanently at its current location in River Hills in 1911 — the move to this wooded northern suburb establishing the enduring home where Milwaukee Country Club has maintained its position as the respected private club in Wisconsin for more than a century. The current course layout was fashioned by Charles Hugh Alison in 1929, with Alison bringing the design sophistication of one of golf's golden age master architects to Milwaukee. H.S. Colt — Alison's longtime partner and among the influential golf course architects in history — had previously consulted on the course, as had Walter Travis and Tom Bendelow in earlier periods of the club's history. Robert Trent Jones Sr. would later contribute to the course's evolution, creating an architectural lineage at Milwaukee Country Club that includes some of the most distinguished names in golf course design. Charles Hugh Alison, who collaborated with H.S. Colt on many of their finest designs including notable courses in Britain, Japan, and America, brought to Milwaukee Country Club the strategic precision and design intelligence that characterized the Colt/Alison partnership at its peak.

Alison's 1929 redesign created the framework for the championship course that has defined the club across nearly a century of Wisconsin golf. Milwaukee Country Club's competitive history encompasses multiple Wisconsin Open championships and high-level amateur events that have attracted the finest golfers in the state and region across six decades of competitive play. The club's facilities — including practice areas, pool, and comprehensive social amenities — reflect the investment in quality that has characterized the institution since its 1895 founding. The River Hills location provides Milwaukee Country Club with the wooded, estate-like character appropriate to a club of its standing, with the mature trees and natural terrain of the North Shore Milwaukee suburb creating among the top private club settings in the Midwest.

The membership represents the business, professional, and social leadership of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Today Milwaukee Country Club continues to serve the greater Milwaukee area as Wisconsin's most historically significant private golf institution, maintaining more than 130 years of continuous club tradition and the Charles Hugh Alison design legacy that has defined championship golf in southeastern Wisconsin.