Few private clubs in the American Midwest carry the tournament pedigree that NCR Country Club does. The club's South Course — the layout that put Kettering on the golf map — hosted the 1969 PGA Championship, where Ray Floyd won his first major title, and returned to the national stage for the 1986 U.S. Senior Open. Dick Wilson designed the course, and his fingerprints are all over it: wide, strategic fairways, boldly contoured greens, and a routing that asks for genuine shot-making rather than brute strength. The non-standard par of 71 reflects a design philosophy that rewards precision over power.
Kettering sits in the southwestern Ohio flatlands just south of Dayton, a region with a deep, quietly serious golf culture that tends to produce courses built for members who actually know the game.
NCR wears its history without fanfare — this is a members' club first, a tournament venue by reputation. Visitors don't pass through here; the experience belongs entirely to those with a stake in the place, which only adds to its understated prestige.
