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St. Louis Country Club is an 18-hole, par-71 course measuring 6,099 yards, designed by Charles Blair Macdonald in 1914. Located in Ladue, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, the course sits on a tight parcel of land with housing on the periphery. It is a classic Charles Blair Macdonald design on wonderfully undulated terrain where there is hardly a flat lie on the property, putting a premium on the shot making skill players will need to have while navigating the course.

Early in the routing, players contend with back-to-back par threes on the 2nd (Biarritz) and 3rd holes. The course boasts a Redan par three near the end of the routing before what could be the best finishing hole of any Macdonald course. At St. Louis, there is a fifth template par 3: the 12th hole, a one-off Crater concept, in addition to the standard Redan, Biarritz, Eden, and Short. The short par-4 18th is Macdonald's version of the 17th at Prestwick, the Alps, and features a blind approach over a ridge into the green.

The course hosted the 1921 U.S. Amateur, where a 19-year-old Bobby Jones participated. In 1925, the St. Louis hosted the U.S. Women's Amateur. In 1947, St. Louis played host to the U.S. Open Championship, and after 72 holes, Sam Snead and Lew Worsham were tied with 282 totals, setting up a playoff on Sunday. In 1960, the club hosted the U.S. Amateur once again.