Ravisloe Country Club Information

Ravisloe Country Club was established in 1901 by an ambitious and visionary group comprised largely of members of Chicago's Standard Club. Ravisloe's founders selected the 120-acre Briggs farm in Homewood, Illinois as the site for their new venture only after considering and ultimately rejecting another property belonging to a Dutchman named Ravisloot. While entertaining that first option, founding members decided "Ravisloot" had a nice ring to it, adapted the moniker to Ravislow and ultimately, called their fledgling club Ravisloe. The original golf course, laid out by Theodore Moreau and James Foulis, covered only 101 acres of the Briggs property and was reasonably playable by fall of 1901. A modest frame cottage served as the original clubhouse. By June 1902, the golf course had undergone drainage improvements, a second frame clubhouse was in use and an early Green Committee chair had commissioned the scientific reconstruction of the greens.