Medinah Country Club, Course No. 3

Three courses went in here in four years. The Medinah Shriners founded the club in 1924, and Tom Bendelow laid out No. 1 by September 1925, No. 2 in 1926 and No. 3 in 1928. No. 3 became the championship course. It has held three U.S. Opens — Cary Middlecoff in 1949, Lou Graham in 1975, Hale Irwin in 1990, which took 91 holes to settle. Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship here twice, in 1999 and 2006. The clubhouse is Byzantine, domed and topped with minarets.

Lake Kadijah sits in the middle of the property. For most of the club's life three par threes crossed it — the 2nd, the 13th and the 17th — and OCM Golf broke up that repetition in its 2023 rebuild, sparing only the 2nd. The old 15th is gone; the old par-three 17th is now a short Cape-style par four playing as the 16th. The new 13th runs along the lake instead of over it, and the new 17th goes back across on a diagonal, 217 yards from the tips. The course reopened in July 2024. The Sunday everyone remembers came earlier. In 2012 the United States led 10–6, Europe took eight of the twelve singles, and Martin Kaymer holed a five-footer at the last; the match finished 14½–13½.