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Ground broken 1923 as the Coquillard Golf Club — Morris Park from 1939 — 2200 McKinley Avenue
Private, and member-owned: Morris Park is a private club. It is sometimes shelved with the city's public courses in summary lists; its own record is unambiguous — a private, member-owned country club of 135 acres at 2200 McKinley Avenue — and it is printed here so the private map is exact. The club's own telling runs: golf began on the old Coquillard farm as the Coquillard Golf Club, ground broken in the fall of 1923, first play in June 1926 over a course by Bob Dustin, a first clubhouse the same year. In 1939 a group of contributors, acting through the influence of E. M. Morris — the banker whose name the city's performing-arts center also carries — purchased the club and established Morris Park Country Club, named in his honor.
The club's own figures: The club marked its centennial in 2023, dating itself from the 1923 ground-breaking. Its own current materials give its strength and its recent work in its own numbers: 535 members, and a $7 million Second Century Project completed in 2021. The club stands active and private in 2026.
Sources:
- Morris Park Country Club, the club's own site and history (morrisparkcc.com) — the Coquillard Golf Club's 1923 ground-breaking and June 1926 first play; Bob Dustin's course; the 1939 purchase through E. M. Morris's influence and the Morris Park name; 135 acres at 2200 McKinley Ave.; 535 members; the $7M Second Century Project completed 2021; the 2023 centennial.