Women’s Western Golf Association (WWGA)
Seven Exmoor women have served as foundation, and grants are funded
president of the WWGA, more than largely by donations from an annual
any other club. Scholarship Day held at the WWGA’s
nearly 300 member clubs.
• Mrs. W.A. Alexander (1903–1904)
• Mrs. W.W. Haerther (1931–1932) Cynthia Willis became the first
• Mrs. Charles Willard (1940–1941) woman to serve as a director of the
• Mrs. Stanley Woleben (1959–1960) WGA (1991–2012), a personal honor,
• Mrs. Phillip Atwood (1961–1962) one which recognized her many
• Mrs. Ann Brown (1983–1984) accomplishments with the WWGA. It
• Mrs. Cynthia Willis (1987–1988) also brought recognition to Exmoor.
The idea to form a women’s golf
The WWGA first organized the Women’s “I owe a lot to Ann Brown who
association was proposed by Exmoor
Western Junior Championship in 1920, preceded me as president,” she
founder W.A. Alexander at a Western
30 years before the USGA started a recalled. “Ann and Brian Kenny served
Golf Association meeting on August 16,
similar event, and the Women’s Western as co-chairs of the 100th anniversary
1901. Comprised of member clubs in the
Senior was added in 1979. Exmoor celebration of the WWGA, held at
Midwest, the WWGA came into being
has hosted 10 WWGA tournaments Exmoor in 2001. We staged the Women’s
on July 9, 1903, when Alexander’s wife,
since 1903. Western Championship, with a large
Mrs. Maude Alexander, was elected tent and banquet. Ron Romack, our pro,
president for a two-year term. The The WWGA formed a foundation in coordinated the golf, and Steve Alley,
Chicago Tribune said, “There is every 1971 to award college scholarships to then club president, played a big role.”
indication the new association will worthy high school girls with high
be successful from the start. Mrs. academic skills and involvement in Cynthia continues to be honored as a
Alexander is one of the most popular golf. Exmoor member Cynthia Willis, Director Emeritus of the WGA.
players in the West.” WWGA president (1987–1988), ran the
scholarship program for 23 years and
W.A. Alexander and his wife donated
is still active in that program.
the sterling silver Alexander Cup,
awarded each year to the winner “In 1971, after several tournaments, we
ofthe Women’s Western Amateur realized we had surplus funds, and we
Championship. awarded one scholarship, then two and
three, then we got more donations, and
here we are after 50 years, still helping
these young women,” Cynthia recalled.
“The first grant was $500, and it grew to
where the typical scholarship today is
$2,500. Approximately 20 recipients are
on scholarship at one time — for four
years — and they can attend any
college they choose.”
The WWGA and the WGA have
enjoyed a cooperative relationship
over the years, and in 2019, the
organizations entered an agreement
whereby the WGA would manage
WWGA tournaments and coordinate
publicity. The scholarship program
remains under the direction of the
Mrs. Maude Alexander,
first president of the WWGA Cynthia Willis
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CHAMPIONSHIP
Tournament Format and Schedule
WESTERN AMATEUR
CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT
A combination of stroke play and match
play competition, the Western Amateur
can be the most demanding event in
professional or amateur golf.
Competition includes two 18-hole
stroke play rounds on Tuesday and
Wednesday followed by a cut to the
players with the low 44 scores and ties.
Those who make the cut then play
36 holes of stroke play on Thursday,
with the low 16 advancing to match
play on Friday.
Qualifying for the Western Amateur’s
“Sweet Sixteen” match play competition
Gordon Sargent tees off on the final day of the 2021 Western Amateur.
is one of the treasured accomplishments
each year among the world’s top-ranked
2022 WESTERN AMATEUR SCHEDULE
amateurs. The first two rounds of 18-
hole match play on Friday narrow the Monday, August 1 Thursday, August 4
field to four semifinalists, who compete Player Registration/ Third Round and Final Round
in a pair of 18-hole matches on Saturday Practice Rounds of Stroke Play (cut to low 16)
morning. Winners of the two morning
matches then play in the 18-hole Tuesday, August 2 Friday, August 5
championship match Saturday First Round, Stroke Play First Two Rounds of Match Play
afternoon.
Wednesday, August 3 Saturday, August 6
Second Round, Stroke Play Semifinal and Championship Rounds
(cut to low 44 and ties) of Match Play
SPECTATOR RULES • Cell Phone and Electronic Devices: • Weather Warning: In the event of
All cell phones and electronic devices imminent dangerous conditions,
• Spectators will not have access to the
should be in the power-off mode when all players, caddies, volunteers, and
Exmoor Country Club clubhouse.
on or near the golf course except in the spectators MUST leave the course
• Please observe silence throughout case of an emergency. Outside near the IMMEDIATELY! Three siren blasts
each shot, and do not move until all clubhouse they should be in vibrate will signal “all clear” when it is safe
contestants in each group have mode and may be used visually. In the for play to resume. If necessary, seek
played or holed out. event that it is necessary to use verbally, shelter.
your conversation should not disturb
or BE HEARD by others. Cell phone
use in the clubhouse area is restricted
to the parking area and not anywhere
in the clubhouse.
52 The Championship Exmoor Country Club
Future Sites of the Western Amateur
The Western Amateur is renowned
for being one of the toughest tests in
amateur golf, and true to form, it is
contested at some of the nation’s most
challenging venues.
After this year’s championship at
Exmoor Country Club, the Western
Amateur will return to the Chicago area
and North Shore Country Club in 2023
before visiting Moraine Country Club
in Ohio in 2024.
2023 Western Amateur Championship host, North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Illinois
2023: NORTH SHORE
COUNTRY CLUB adapting the course to improvements in With several holes modeled after those
Designed by the legendary golf course today’s club and golf ball technology. at the Old Course at St. Andrews,
architecture firm of Harry S. Colt and Troon, Prestwick and North Berwick,
Ethan Tracy’s victory in 2011 came
Charles H. Alison, North Shore is a against a field that included Moraine has been a perennial fixture
Chicago-area classic that measures on Golfweek’s list of Top 100
Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth
over 7,000 yards and plays to a par of 71. and Justin Thomas. Classic Courses.
Opened to members in 1924, the club Throughout its lifetime, the course has
hosted the 1928 Western Open, the 2024: MORAINE borne witness to the remarkable play of
1933 U.S. Open, the 1939 U.S. Amateur, COUNTRY CLUB some of the finest players the sport has
the 1983 U.S. Amateur and the 2011 Carved into the expansive Moraine ever known, including Byron Nelson,
Western Amateur. It has also been the Ben Hogan and Francis Ouimet. It
Farms property of Colonel Edward A.
site of U.S. Open qualifiers and other Deeds, Moraine Country Club has been hosted the 1945 PGA Championship,
significant events, including the 2010 where Nelson won his final major
a source of golf history since it opened
Windon Memorial, a major collegiate in 1930. The 7,270-yard, par 72 layout championship and his ninth victory
tournament. during his famed streak of 11
was designed by Alec “Nipper”
consecutive wins.
Over the years, the club has made Campbell, who used the natural
a point of preserving the spirit and topography to create a remarkable The club regularly serves as the host
aesthetic of the original design while Scottish links-style course reminiscent of the Ohio Amateur Championship.
of those in his native Scotland. This will be its first Western Amateur.
FUTURE SITES
2023: North Shore Country Club
2024: Moraine Country Club
2025: Skokie Country Club
2026: Beverly Country Club
2029: Baltimore Country Club
2024 Western Amateur Championship host, Moraine Country Club in Dayton, Ohio
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THE EXMOOR
GOLF COURSE
Exmoor: A Donald Ross Masterpiece,
Four Years in the Making
Donald Ross new course plan, ca. 1915, showing hole #1 (top) under construction (new features marked in black)
In 2022, Exmoor Country Club will will challenge contestants at this year’s yards away has been raised six feet
celebrate the 107th anniversary of its Western Amateur: and on the left is a sandy trap, while a
Donald Ross-designed golf course. player approaching the right side of
“From the first tee 200 yards down is
the green will have to go over a gentle
Ross completed construction of the a finely made hazard of traps and
knoll seven feet high.” (Chicago
first three holes in late 1915, and the copses which are thirty feet wide.
Tribune, December 15, 1915)
remaining holes were finished over the Four hundred yards down the course
next four years in a project costing on the left there is a long, rakish
$35,000. Coordinating with Ross at hazard 45 yards long. The green 100
Exmoor were Greens Chairman Tom
Wyles and Golf Pro Jack Croke.
For more than a century, Exmoor has
maintained the integrity of the original
Ross design. One news account of the
first hole from 1915 describes these
design features, all of which are
recognizable in the starting hole that
Golf Architect Donald Ross Donald Ross fairway bunker, left side, hole No.1, restored by Ron Prichard, 2003
56 The Exmoor Golf Course Exmoor Country Club
Course Restoration by Ron Prichard
The Donald Ross bunkers were dramatic in style, as this one on No. 16, looking west. Old aerial photos Sketch by Ron Prichard used to resurrect cross-bunkers
enabled course architect Ron Prichard in 2003 to reconstruct these bunkers, which now cross the
16th fairway.
In 2003, Exmoor engaged golf architect work. Prichard restyled all bunkers,
Ron Prichard to help restore the course installed a new watering system, and
to its original Donald Ross design. As introduced several varieties of fescue
with many early courses, the edges of grass to the course. Some trees were
tees and greens had shifted and needed removed to “open up” the course.
to be redefined. Old aerial photos
The project re-established the strategic
revealed long-lost bunkers which could
value of many holes, encouraging
be reconstructed so players today could
players to position tee shots to one side
enjoy them as members did years ago.
of the fairway (or the middle), with the
The project was headed by club goal of creating the most advantageous
Presidents Steve Alley, Glenn Harris, angle to attack the pin.
and Dale Taubensee, with Course
Superintendent Kurt Galisdorfer and
his crew implementing all aspects of the Golf Architect Ron Prichard
Cross bunkers today
2022 Western Amateur Championship The Exmoor Golf Course 57
The Exmoor Golf Course: Authentic Donald Ross
The Exmoor course will present this with open run-ups, others with false 1899, Ross designed more than 400
year’s field of players with a classical fronts; and all greens with subtle golf courses and is renowned for
golf experience, one that exemplifies contours and multiple options for incorporating aspects of strategic
the Golden Age of golf architecture — pin placements. design learned from his days at St.
1910–1937 — a period when many of Andrews and as greenskeeper and head
Exmoor is located on the crest of
America’s most influential courses professional at the course in Dornoch.
a 12,000-year-old glacial ridge, a
were built. The layout features design
geological feature that inspired Ross At age 46, and nearing the height of
antecedents to the great courses of
to direct the course of play uphill, his design prowess, Ross walked the
Scotland: imaginative grass-faced
downhill and across the flatter areas of Exmoor property, listening to club
bunkers, challenging green complexes
the club’s 145 acres. He crafted a course officials, taking notes, and thinking
and 18 holes shaped in natural ways
that requires golfers to gauge the ideal deeply about design changes that
by the land on which they were built.
playing angles off the tee and to assess would elevate the existing course to
Donald J. Ross, considered the “Dean” the risk-or-reward of each stroke. a new level of championship quality.
of American golf architects, designed Players learn quickly to be alert to the
When work commenced, his plan
the Exmoor golf course in 1915. Golf changing winds off Lake Michigan,
installed new greens, which were raised
architect Ron Prichard completed a one mile to the east, which may shift
and sloped from back to front, and he
course restoration in 2003, and directions two or three times during
squared the fronts and backs of some
working through 2018 with Prichard, a round.
greens, while adding deceptive false
Exmoor resurfaced its greens with
fronts to others. Greenside bunkers
Pure Distinction bent grass, redefined
DONALD ROSS captured errant strokes, but the fronts
green pad shapes, and added new
A native of Dornoch, Scotland, Donald of most greens were left open — again
grass approaches to all greens.
Ross apprenticed at the Old Course in in classic style — enabling players to
The course will challenge every aspect St. Andrews under the guiding hand of keep their shots under the wind and
of a player’s game, with broad fairways Old Tom Morris, Scotland’s famous 19th roll them onto the green, just as Ross
and abrupt doglegs; with creative century champion player and course did as a young man on the sandy soil
bunkers, long grasses and some greens architect. After coming to America in of windswept St. Andrews.
The birthplace of Donald Ross, Dornoch, Scotland
58 The Exmoor Golf Course Exmoor Country Club
Tournament Course Conditions and Changes
TOURNAMENT COURSE
2022 CHANGES BY As with any meaningful course changes,
CONDITIONS
GOLF ARCHITECT the Andrew Green recommendations
Course Superintendent Tim Kelly is were evaluated through a process that
ANDREW GREEN
using a comprehensive approach to represents the collective thoughts
create ideal playing conditions for In the fall of 2020, Exmoor engaged of variety of valued Exmoor entities.
the Western Amateur: “The Exmoor Andrew Green as the club’s new According to Greens Chairman
Agronomy Team will perform evening course architect. Green visited the golf Mark Gunderson: “The Golf Course
maintenance and bring in volunteers course several times in 2021 to begin Superintendent and Exmoor's Certified
for additional morning tasks related development of a new Master Plan. Arborist weighed in on the proposed
to the championship. We are fortunate During his visits, he recommended changes. The recommendations were
to have an outstanding community change to the 1st, 9th, and 18th holes then submitted to the Golf Course
of clubs and superintendents willing that could improve the course in Master Plan Committee (GCMPC)
to lend a member of their teams advance of the Western Amateur, and Grounds and Greens Committee
to Exmoor each morning. Most when the eyes of the amateur golfing where the changes were unanimously
significantly, our team of assistant world will be on Exmoor.
approved. The GCMPC then provided
superintendents will be working
In back of the first green, the cart path the recommendations to the Board of
almost round-the-clock to make this
has been straightened, with the run-off Governors to consider approval and
experience extraordinary. Major
area behind the green extended, and a implementation. The changes were
commendation is deserved for their
new championship tee is now installed unanimously adopted at the annual
work ethic and dedication.
for #18. The most noticeable changes board retreat in January.”
“Playing conditions will be challenging will occur on the 9th hole. The 300-year-
but fair. We will grow the rough longer old oak tree that has graced the right
than for typical member play to fairway for more than a century died
increase the penalty for those straying and was removed, to be replaced with a
from fairways and greens. Green series of new mounds, called hummocks.
speeds will be coordinated with the The left fairway bunker has been
Championship Operations Team to totally redesigned as a cluster of
provide an adequate challenge without bunkers in classic Ross style, with
sacrificing pin locations. Weather nearby hummocks as well, and the
permitting, we will keep things as bunker left of the green has been
firm as possible to enhance eliminated.
shortgrass/bunker engagements
(roll-ins)."
Mark Gunderson, Greens Chairman and Member,
Board of Governors
2022 Western Amateur Championship The Exmoor Golf Course 59
“Build each hole in such a manner “At Exmoor you possess a golf course “The intent of the changes to holes
that it wastes none of the ground at created by a golf architect (Ross) 1, 9 and 18 are to adhere to the
my disposal and takes advantage of who was the best at his work. It was modern influences of golf course
every possibility I can see. Putting designed to be a part of the land, and management, to balance both the
greens constructed in relation to the to reflect a full variety of results on challenge and enjoyment of a diverse
length and topography of the hole shots played on various areas of the family membership, and most
are the making of a good golf course.” course. It was intended to be a importantly, to honor Donald Ross
— Donald J. Ross masterpiece.” design principles by regaining many
— Ron Prichard, Exmoor of the authentic Donald Ross
Restoration Course Architect, 2003 characteristics the course has
lost over time.”
“It is the ultimate object in the
— Mark Gunderson, Greens
reconstruction of the Exmoor “Ross had a tremendous ability to use
Chairman and Member,
course (under Mr. Ross) — to have the land. He fit the holes into the Board of Governors, 2022
as much individuality in our greens existing slopes and contours so they
as possible, making each green looked natural and blended in.”
particularly adapted to the play — Andrew Green,
of the hole. His favorite hole is Exmoor Course Architect, 2021
number seventeen.”
— Tom Wyles, Exmoor Greens
Chairman, 1918
Exmoor Country Club
Course Overview
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Scoreboard
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out
Yard 507 441 401 454 192 543 363 211 397 3509
Par 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 35
Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In
Yard 439 576 184 371 174 573 444 434 439 3634
Par 4 5 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 36
Total yards for the course: 7143 Total par for the course: 71
HOLE 1
YARDS 507 — PAR 4
In the final match of the 1952 Western
Amateur, golf great Frank Stranahan hit
this green in two shots, sank a 40-foot
eagle putt, and seized the early
momentum in his championship
victory over Harvie Ward, Jr. Still a
birdie opportunity, second shots will
need to carry the bunker 50 yards in
front of the green.
Course Photos by Charles Cherney
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HOLE 2
YARDS 441 — PAR 4
The second of five consecutive holes with
out-of-bounds on the right, long hitters
can target the left side of the fairway and
let loose. When the pin is on the right
side, second shots require accuracy,
maybe a soft fade. Former Exmoor
member Chick Evans, winner of the 1916
U.S. Open, called this “the toughest hole
on the course, with its narrow entrance
and traps on both sides.”
2022 Western Amateur Championship The Exmoor Golf Course 65
HOLE 3
YARDS 401 — PAR 4
This is one of Exmoor’s memorable short
par 4s. With water on the left and a high-
styled fairway bunker on the right, an
iron may be the right choice from the tee.
The green is protected by a bunker on the
right and requires a well-struck shot to
the heart of the green, crowned in true
Donald Ross fashion.
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HOLE 4
YARDS 454 — PAR 4
With a tree line on the left and white
stakes on the right, the fourth is one of
Exmoor’s premier par 4s. Putts from
above the hole demand a true read and
a soft touch to stop near — or hopefully
in — the hole.
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HOLE 5
YARDS 192 — PAR 3
Uphill and often challenged by shifting
crosswinds off Lake Michigan, club
selection is paramount on this par-3 gem.
Miss the green and you will need your
best bunker shot or flop wedge to get
close to the pin for a par save.
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HOLE 6
YARDS 543 — PAR 5
By tournament week, the trees on the left
side will be dense with leaves, and a new
championship tee will limit the option to
fly over the first of two doglegs. Fairway
placement off the tee is paramount, as
trees on the right side can block your
second shot. Go over this green, and
you’ll have a tough up-and-down
coming back.
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HOLE 7
YARDS 363 — PAR 4
Two fairway bunkers splitting the fairway
30 yards apart suggest an iron off the tee
or a 3-wood to carry them. This may be
a drivable par 4, but a long tee ball or
second shot pulled left can leave a
dreaded 50-yard bunker shot to the pin.
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HOLE 8
YARDS 211 — PAR 3
This signature hole presents a tree-lined
chute off the tee. Its right-to-left sloping
green, deep bunker and lightning-fast
putting surface make the eighth
reminiscent of a classic Redan hole.
Many creative pin placements will
make this seem like a new hole each
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HOLE 9
YARDS 397 — PAR 4
Golfers will appreciate the imaginative
new fairway bunker complex on the left,
designed by course architect Andrew
Green. Drives reaching the left rough
beyond the bunkers may be blocked by
a large oak tree 120 yards out. Tall trees
behind the green can disguise easterly
winds that blow off nearby Lake
Michigan. One extra club is often
the right choice.
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HOLE 10
YARDS 439 — PAR 4
A classic Donald Ross bunker 250 yards
out on the left is reachable, so play short
or aim for the gap to the right. The two-
tier green requires a second shot to be
hole-high for a chance at birdie.
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YARDS 576 — PAR 5
Few par 5s are defended so well.
Risk-reward on the second shot presents
water on the right, a bunker on the left
or fairway safety in between. Greenside
bunkers pinch the green, so approach
shots, whether your second or third,
will need height and backspin to
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HOLE 12
YARDS 184 — PAR 3
In 1915, Donald Ross raised this green to
its current height, perching it behind and
bordering a deep pond that will readily
accept a slice. In the final match of the
2012 Western Amateur, runner-up Jordan
Russell dumped his tee shot in the water,
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YARDS 371 — PAR 4
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HOLE 14
YARDS 174 — PAR 3
Conviction will be the operative word on
this tee. Players will need to judge both
distance and the wind to a narrow back-
to-front sloping green, then swing away.
Balls short of the green will roll to the
pond. Almost every putt will contend
with a raised spine running front-to-back.
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HOLE 15
YARDS 573 — PAR 5
To be a two-shot par 5, this double dogleg
hole will require two well-struck, left-to-
right shots: the first to hold the fairway
off the tee and another to fade around
the tall trees on the right at the
second dogleg.
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HOLE 16
YARDS 444 — PAR 4
Exmoor’s longest par 4 showcases the
original Donald Ross cross-bunkering
recaptured by golf architect Ron Prichard
in 2003. Drives landing on the left side of
the fairway offer the best angle to most
every pin position.
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HOLE 17
YARDS 434 — PAR 4
From the elevated tee, your sightline is
uninterrupted, unless your drive collides
with a fairway bunker, left or right.
The members’ secret: grain on the green
grows to the west, making uphill putts
faster than you think and downhill
putts slower. Donald Ross called this
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HOLE 18
YARDS 439 — PAR 4
This straightaway par 4 has been
Exmoor’s finishing hole since the day
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