Old Warson Country Club


Old Warson Country Club is a country club located in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1953, it hosted the 1971 Ryder Cup and the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur. The golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.
Hale Irwin, the winner of three U.S. Opens, joined the club in 1974 as a junior member; since 1977 he has been an active member.
Until 1991, Old Warson Country Club banned Black and Jewish people from joining. That year, it cancelled plans to host a PGA Senior Tour event rather than change its discriminatory rules. Several months later, the club admitted its first Black member: Frederick S. Wood, a retired executive vice president at General Dynamics.
The initiation fee was $45,000 in 1996 and $80,000 in 2006.

Major tournaments

YearTournamentWinner
1957Western AmateurEd Updegraff
1962Trans-Mississippi AmateurBob Ryan
1971Ryder CupTeam USA
1999U.S. Mid-AmateurDanny Green
2009U.S. Women's AmateurJennifer Song
2016U.S. Senior AmateurDave Ryan