Des Moines Golf & Country Club (North)

Overview: The North Course at Des Moines Golf & Country Club is the companion to the club's South Course and part of Pete Dye's 36-hole West Des Moines project. It presents a parkland championship test through mature trees and changing ground, with strategic bunkering, water and carefully shaped green approaches characteristic of Dye's work. The directory lists the North at 7,100 yards and par 72. Its challenge comes from the need to choose sensible lines into the greens and to control approaches around the course's smaller targets, rather than relying only on power.

History: The club began in 1897 on land offered by Harry Polk at the western edge of Des Moines. Warren Dickinson, a founding member, redesigned the first haphazard 18-hole course into nine holes, after which the club moved near Waveland and commissioned Thomas Bendelow for a new layout. That site was used for the 1909 Trans-Mississippi tournament and as part of the 1911 U.S. Amateur setting. The club moved again to the Ashworth Estate in 1923, then purchased 471 acres in Dallas County when a planned interstate threatened the earlier property. Pete Dye's two courses opened in 1968 and 1969, establishing the present 36-hole identity. Tim Liddy later supervised a 2013–16 renovation master plan developed with Dye.

Did You Know? The club's history records that the original course was reduced to nine holes by Warren Dickinson before the later moves and the Pete Dye era. The two modern courses also hosted major championships, including the 1999 U.S. Senior Open and the 2017 Solheim Cup.