Located within the city limits of Chicago, the course at The Beverly Country Club is one of the loudest in golf. The front and back nines are divided by bustling 87th Street, the west side of the property borders a popular train line, and the course sits under the flight path for Midway Airport. Underneath all of this noise sits one of Chicago’s very best golf courses, a Donald Ross design that over the past decade has cultivated an identity as a pure golf club in a crowded regional golf landscape.

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Legends of the city. Beverly is a former host of the Chicago Open, a tournament of yesteryear with an illustrious list of champions that includes Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Ken Venturi, and others. In the second-to-last staging of the Chicago Open, Luke Donald earned a six-shot victory at Beverly as an amateur.

Have we met? A 38-year-old Francis Ouimet won the 1931 US Amateur at Bev, 18 years after his famous victory at Brookline. He arrived at the event as a question mark, without many recent tournament reps under his belt. I guess you could call it his second-best underdog win.

A non-original. Before 87th Street became a busy thoroughfare, the ninth green sat on the other side of it. As the road expanded, the green was moved to its current location, drastically changing the hole. Similarly, the first tee shot used to play over the road until the tee was moved up.

The next generation. Beverly boasts the single largest Evans Scholar caddie program in the country.

O’Neil routed, Ross renovated. A common misconception about Beverly is that it is purely a Donald Ross design. A significant portion of the credit, however, should be attributed to the little-known George O’Neil, who designed a handful of courses across the Midwest and Florida. Ross redesigned Beverly, to be sure, but O’Neil’s routing remains largely intact.