A storied era when leading industrialists teamed with legendary architects – including Ross, Tillinghast, McKenzie, Park and Bendelow – to fashion from incomparable native landscapes what would become known as America’s crown jewels of golf. This was the age that created Baltusrol and Winged Foot, Seminole and Oakland Hills, Cypress Point and Medinah. But if the Golden Age is best known for its industry and bold ambition, then there are few testaments to the Golden Age equal to Olympia Fields. Founded in 1915, by 1925 the club boasted four 18-hole courses and the largest private clubhouse in the world with an 80-foot, four faced clock tower visible to golfers from all four first tees. The grandeur of Olympia Fields was remarkable even to Herbert Warren Wind, America’s leading golf historian, who, in his landmark work, the Story of American Golf, marveled at this unparalleled expression of the spirit of the Golden Age