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Morris Park is South Bend's: The country club a Mishawaka golfer most likely belonged to stands in South Bend, and it is South Bend's in this build, whole, in that city's Private Clubs section. Morris Park Country Club, at 2200 McKinley Avenue in South Bend, began as the Coquillard Golf Club — ground broken on the old Coquillard farm in the fall of 1923, first play in June 1926, the course laid out by Bob Dustin on 135 acres — and became Morris Park in 1939, when members bought the club through E. M. Morris's influence to keep the ground from becoming a public park. The club's own history closes the question in its own words: it stands "in the heart of the city of South Bend." Mishawaka members filled it, as they filled South Bend's downtown clubs; the seat governs, and the club is not absorbed here.
Eberhart-Petro is the city's: The course on Mishawaka's own bluff, where the two clubs above played, is the Eberhart-Petro Municipal Golf Course at 801 North State Street — municipal since Eberhart's gift, opened as a public course in 1929 with nine holes and eighteen in 1949, and carried whole in the Parks & River section. It is a public course that stands on private-club ground, which is why the clubs are here and the course is there.
And east: The next country-club ground east of the city, at Knollwood in Granger, belongs to that place's own later build and is not taken here.
Sources:
- Morris Park Country Club, the club's own published history (morrisparkcc.com) — Coquillard Golf Club 1923, first play June 1926, the 1939 purchase and renaming, "in the heart of the city of South Bend," 2200 McKinley Ave., South Bend; the South Bend Private Clubs section of the South Bend build, where the club stands whole.
- The Eberhart-Petro record in the Parks & River section of this build.