The “Tucker’s Trail” short course was named after brothers Jerry and Mike Tucker, who have led Bellerive’s golf department for the past 34 years.Joe Barks is the Editor of Club & Resort Business magazine, working out of Wayne, Pa. (suburban Philadelphia). How can I talk about the golf course when it’s all so insignificant?”The PGA Championship will be Woods’ first time back at Bellerive; he missed the 2008 tournament because of knee surgery following his U.S. Open triumph that June at Torrey Pines.For the tour’s younger set, who were elementary school kids during 9/11, Bellerive is just another championship test — and maybe a forgiving one at that.Named for Louis St. Ange De Bellerive, a French commander who was instrumental in founding the city of St. Louis, Bellerive Country Club is a parkland course in the west St. Louis suburb of Town and Country.It tips out at about 7,400 yards, and with relatively generous fairways and numerous trees eliminated during architect Rees Jones’ 2006 renovation of his father’s original 1960 design, the layout might have little in the way of defense.Coronado Golf Course head pro Brian Smock, a longtime Web.com Tour player who qualified for his second straight PGA through the Club Professional Championship, practiced at Bellerive last week and declared it “soft.” The greens, he said, have just begun to get healthy after a long winter, and so they might not reach the slick speeds that would overly tax the world’s best.Forget about seeing balls spring off concrete-hard greens as they did in June’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.“It’s gettable,” Smock said.
“The holes have great shape to them.
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Flags for the eight championship events that Bellerive has hosted in its 123-year history now fly proudly behind the expanded range tee. Instant access to the latest news, videos and photos from around the world of golf. … You’re going to need to be really precise.”Bellerive’s greens are among the largest in major championship golf — many at 10,000 square feet — and there are massive bunkers around most of them. In 1900, the membership incorporated the name Bellerive Country Club, named after Louis St. Ange De Bellerive, the last French commander in North America. In addition to rebuilding the greens, Bellerive also rebuilt and expanded the practice range tee, to improve drainage and add hitting stations. Tiger Woods was at the zenith of his popularity, having won five times that season, including the Masters to hold all four major trophies at the same time.At Bellerive, Woods kept his usual routine of going out at sunrise, accompanied by Mike Weir, Mark Calcavecchia and Vijay Singh.The round was casual, carefree, until PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem drove up in a golf cart with horrifying news. The club continued on hosting different PGA Championships in 1981 and 1992.The cost of the initiation fees, according to the resources we found online, is said to be around $65,000 with no equity and monthly dues are aroundThe club offers the following membership options: regular, associate, junior, non-golfing senior, life and non-resident.The 18-hole Bellerive golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr, spans 7,177 yards and is located on 353 acres, and aside from the golf course, other golf inclusions include a practice putting greens, a driving range with 13 tees, a short game practice area and golf lessons available for members.