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Bellerive Country Club is a golf country club located in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. It is – with the Old Warson, Westwood, and St. Louis country clubs – considered one of the "big four" old-line elite St. Louis clubs. The course hosted the 2013 Senior PGA Championship, and will be hosting the 100th annual PGA Championship, which will be held in 2018. ==History== The club opened in 1897 as The Field Club, founded by several St. Louis sportsmen who wanted a place for golf and other leisure activities. The course, which featured nine holes until another nine were added some years later, was built on land leased from the estate of War of 1812 war hero Daniel Bissell. In 1910, the club moved to nearby Normandy and renamed the Bellerive Country Club after Louis St. Ange de Bellerive who in 1765 was the last French governor of Illinois Country. The clubhouse was built in the style of Georgian architecture. The first notable golf tournament held at Bellerive was the 1949 Western Amateur Championship. Four years later, the club hosted the PGA Tour's Western Open, won by E.J. "Dutch" Harrison. In 1957, the club put its Normandy site on the market for $1.3 million. At the same time the Normandy School District began discussing the need for establishing a junior college as an affordable alternative to the privately owned Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University. The Club lowered the price to $600,000 and the Normandy Residence Center opened in a renovated club house in 1960 with classes taught by the University of Missouri. The campus became the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 1963. In 1959, the club moved to its current site in the suburb of Town and Country. Robert Trent Jones designed the new course, which opened on Memorial Day in 1960. Five years later, the club hosted its first USGA championship and major championship, the U.S. Open in 1965, in which Gary Player won in a Monday playoff over Kel Nagle. It was the first U.S. Open scheduled for a Sunday final round; previously the third and fourth rounds were played on Saturday. The course hosted the inaugural U.S. Mid-Amateur in 1981, won by Jim Holtgrieve. Bellerive hosted its second major with the PGA Championship in 1992; Nick Price won the first of his three majors with a score of 278, six under par and three strokes ahead of four runners-up. Bellerive was one of the courses used in the qualifying stroke play round of the 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur. In 2001, the course was scheduled to host the WGC-American Express Championship in mid-September, but the event was cancelled because of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The course hosted the United States Senior Open in 2004, won by Peter Jacobsen. The course hosted the 2008 BMW Championship (formerly known as the Western Open), part of the FedEx Cup playoffs.〔 〕 in early September. This tournament invited the top 70 players on the PGA Tour to compete for the final spots in The Tour Championship and was won by Camilo Villegas. It then went on to host the 2013 Senior PGA Championship, won by longshot Japanese pro Kohki Idoki, and will again be the site for a major when the 2018 PGA Championship is held at Bellerive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bellerive Country Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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