The country clubs individually, and the public courses stated plainly as public

1900–PRESENT · THE COUNTY CLUB AND COURSE TEST, PRINTED; NO CLUB OR COURSE ON THIS GROUND

The country-club test, run on the county's club and course records and printed at its result: the county's private clubs stand individually as follows, each on its own city's ground. South Bend Country Club, at 25800 Country Club Drive, South Bend — established 1916 in the club's own account, its 18-hole course designed by George O'Neil and opened 1916, private. (The forum record's separate line — a "South Bend Country Club" incorporated 25 January 1900, its course question unresolved against the St. Joe Valley club of the same ground — is printed as it stands, unmerged with the 1916 establishment.) Morris Park Country Club, at 2200 McKinley Avenue, South Bend — its own history gives ground broken on the old Coquillard farm in the fall of 1923, first play in June 1926, and the private club established in 1939 under E. M. Morris's name after members bought the course to keep it from becoming a public park; the directory record's "established 1923" stands against that course whole, unmerged. The public courses, stated plainly as public in the same leg as the checklist requires: Eberhart-Petro Municipal Golf Course in Mishawaka, Studebaker Municipal and Erskine Park in South Bend, and Blackthorn, listed public — municipal and public golf, open to any player, not clubs. On this ground the test returns none of either kind: no country club, private club or golf course has ever been seated inside the town in any record reached — Sports's golf test prints the same negative, the corridor's historic Eberhart-Petro course being Mishawaka's — and the town's only golf-form ground is the county park's 18-hole disc golf course at Ferrettie/Baugo Creek, a county park game told in Sports. Osceola's golfers, like its bowlers, have always driven to the cities' courses, public and private alike.

From the clubs' and courses' own records (South Bend Country Club, 25800 Country Club Dr — established 1916, George O'Neil course; Morris Park Country Club's own club history — ground broken fall 1923, first play June 1926, the private club established 1939, 2200 McKinley Ave — against the CountyOffice directory line "established 1923," printed unmerged; the GolfClubAtlas forum record for the 1900 incorporation line, printed at forum strength); the course directories' public listings (Eberhart-Petro Municipal, Mishawaka; Studebaker Municipal and Erskine Park, South Bend; Blackthorn, public). The home-ground negative: Sports as banked (the golf test, November 2026).