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1916 – present
The country clubs: The South Bend Country Club dates to 1916. Morris Park, the city's other storied club, began as the Coquillard Golf Club: ground was broken in the fall of 1923 on the old Coquillard farm — the course designed by Bob Dustin, in the club's own history — first play came in June 1926, and the first clubhouse rose the same year. The Depression nearly killed it; in 1939 E. M. Morris led the purchase that saved the club, and it took his name: Morris Park Country Club. The course was renovated under Bob Lohmann in the early 1990s.
The public game: Erskine Park, the city's municipal course, opened in 1925 — an eighteen-hole, par-70 course of about 6,100 yards that has carried the public game in South Bend for a century.
The national event: The city's place in championship golf runs through the university: Notre Dame's Warren Golf Course hosted the U.S. Senior Open in 2019, the one national golf championship played on a South Bend-area course in the record reached.
Sources:
- Morris Park Country Club history — the Coquillard Golf Club founding, 1923 ground-breaking, 1926 first play, the 1939 Morris purchase and naming.
- Course records — Erskine Park, opened 1925, municipal, par 70; South Bend Country Club established 1916.
- USGA / Sports Illustrated championship listings — the 2019 U.S. Senior Open at the Warren Golf Course.