Bellerive Country Club
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Bellerive Country Club is a golf country club located in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
The club hosted its first USGA championship and major championship when the 1965 U.S Open was held at Bellerive. Gary Player won in a playoff with a score of two over par. The course hosted the inaugural U.S. Mid-Amateur in 1981, won by Jim Holtgrieve. In 1992, Bellerive hosted the PGA Championship, in which Nick Price won his first major championship with a score of 278, or six under par.
Bellerive is a long course, measuring 7,547 yards from the champioship tees and 6,976 yards from the members’ tees, a par of 71 for men and 72 for women. Bellerive has a course and slope rating of 76.5/141 from the championship tees. The course has six par 4s that measure over 450 yards from the championship tees, the fifth-most among courses that have hosted the U.S. Open. The longest of these is the 519-yard 10th hole, which doglegs left around a bunker and then heads downhill across a creek that crosses the fairway about 30 yards from the green.
The entire course underwent a $9.5 million renovation in 2005-06 because the county needed to install new sewer lines under most of the course, not to prepare for the BMW championship. The redesign was done by Rees Jones, who lengthened and toughened U.S. Open courses Winged Foot and Torrey Pines Golf Course.
