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Few names in American golf history carry more weight than Tam O'Shanter. The original Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Niles — just north of Chicago — was the brainchild of George S. May, a flamboyant businessman who transformed professional tournament golf in the 1940s and '50s. May's "World Championship of Golf" at Tam O'Shanter was the first tournament broadcast on national television, and the site of one of the most celebrated shots in history: Lew Worsham's 1953 wedge holed from the fairway on the final hole to win by a single stroke. The moment effectively invented golf on TV.
Today's public 9-hole layout in Niles operates in that legendary shadow, offering a more accessible, everyday game on Chicago's North Shore. The area sits in the flat, open terrain characteristic of northeastern Illinois, where mature trees and modest elevation changes do the work of shaping holes in the absence of dramatic topography.
For locals, this is a place to play a quick round after work or introduce a newcomer to the game — a neighborhood track carrying an outsized name and the faintest echo of a genuinely remarkable past.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back · men | 2,440 | 31.6 | 106 | 33 |
| Forward · women | 1,905 | 30.7 | 104 | 32 |
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