In its infancy, Olympia fields Country Club quickly became the largest private country club in America. By 1925, the club had four golf courses, with plans for a fifth course in the offing. Tom Bendelow designed course #1. Tom Bendelow with William Watson designed the #2 course. William Watson designed course #3, and Willie Park Jr., a famed British Open Champion who is also credited as the man who first put grooves on irons and known as one of the best putters of his generation, designed the #4 course. Fred Krueger did the actual construction on Course #4. The fourth course quickly became recognized as one of the best golf courses in the world and is still ranked as #30 by Golf Digest.

Olympia Fields is also famous for its gargantuan clubhouse. Construction began in 1923 and was completed in 1925 at a staggering cost of $1.3 million. The distinctive half-timbered English Tudor design features an eighty-foot high, four-faced clock tower that has become the trademark of the club. Today, the clubhouse remains a bright star in the firmament of American golf, with enormous dining facilities and private clubrooms for members and guests.

Throughout its existence, Olympia Fields has been the Host to Champions. Its rolling fairways have accepted the shots of legends like Bobby Jones, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Olympia Fields Country Club hosted he U.S. Open in 1928, with club pro Johnny Farrell beating Bobby Jones in a playoff. OFCC was also the scene of two PGA tournaments. In 1925 Walter Hagan won the PGA and Jerry Barber conquered the field in 1961. Prior to WWII, the Western Open was considered a major and has been held at OFCC on five separate occasions; Jock Hutchison won in 1920, Walter Hagan in 1927, 1933 Macdonald Smith, 1968 Jack Nicklaus, and in 1971, Bruce Crampton. In 1997, Graham Marsh won the U.S. Senior Open with a score of even par 280.

The eyes of the golfing world will be on Olympia Fields Country Club in the summer of 2003 as it hosts the 103rd U.S. Open Championship. The best golfers in the world will be playing a golf course that features "tradition with a modern face." Many of the holes on the North Course are unchanged from the original Willie Park, Jr. design. The course has been lengthened and the bunkers have been made deeper with steeper faces to keep up with the skills and technology of modern play, but Olympia Fields Country Club still has the look and feel of a golf course from the 1920's. The North Course stretches some 7,177 yards over a topographically diverse piece of real estate with big elevation change, a meandering creek and hundreds of native oak trees. It will provide a stern test of the best in the business when they come to town June 9 - 15, 2003.