Old Warson Country Club

About the club

Old Warson was a staple on the America's 100 Greatest Courses ranking from the late 1960s through much of the 1990s. The 1954 Robert Trent Jones design in St. Louis was among the first wave of significant post-World War II modern designs, an open countryside course with broad fairways that floated into elevated greens, many protected in the front by Jones' freeform bunkers. Today, as age and the suburbs have ingested it, it's evolved into a treelined parkland design, its fairways much skinnier, its once robust putting contours conceded to current green speeds. The routing remains a strong point with the first nine playing off a ridge that runs through the eastern side of the course and the second nine circling a chain of lakes highlighted by the 12th, one of RTJ's great par-5s with a creek that crosses the fairway then doubles back in front of the green.