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    Old Warson Country Club

    Saint Louis, MO Private

    Overview

    Old Warson was a staple on the America's 100 Greatest Courses ranking from the late 1960s through much of the 1990s. The 1954 Robert Trent Jones design in St. Louis was among the first wave of significant post-World War II modern designs, an open countryside course with broad fairways that floated into elevated greens, many protected in the front by Jones' freeform bunkers. Today, as age and the suburbs have ingested it, it's evolved into a treelined parkland design, its fairways much skinnier, its once robust putting contours conceded to current green speeds. The routing remains a strong point with the first nine playing off a ridge that runs through the eastern side of the course and the second nine circling a chain of lakes highlighted by the 12th, one of RTJ's great par 5s with a creek that crosses the fairway then doubles back in front of the green.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 6946
    Slope 144
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1954
    Designer Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA

    Awards

    100 Greatest
    Best Courses in Every State

    100 Greatest: Ranked from 1969-'92, 1995-'98 and 2003-'04. The course was also ranked on the inaugural America's 200 Toughest Courses list from 1966-'68. Highest ranking: No. 77, 1989-'92.

    Best in State: Ranked inside the top five, 1977-2016. Ranked sixth, 2017-'18, 2021-'22. Ranked seventh, 2019-'22.

    Current ranking: 5th.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.2

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.0905
    Character
    7.3805
    Challenge
    7.0777
    Layout Variety
    7.0643
    Fun
    7.0624
    Aesthetics
    7.0878
    Conditioning
    7.2978

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