The Glen Club

The Glen Club is built on the former runways of Naval Air Station Glenview, which operated from 1923 until its 1995 closure. Following a multi-year, community-based planning process (Village of Glenview Land Use Plan approved 1998), the roughly 1,121-acre site was redeveloped as The Glen -- a genuinely mixed-use district combining new-construction residential neighborhoods, the Prairie Glen Corporate Campus, retail centers, a Metra rail station, the 142-acre Gallery Park, and two golf courses, with The Glen Club as the 180-acre centerpiece course. Designed by Tom Fazio and opened in the summer of 2001, the course became the only course in U.S. history at that time to place on all three of Golf Digest's, Golf Magazine's, and Sports Illustrated's Top 10 New Course lists in the same year, and the club marked its 25th anniversary in 2026.

For a golf-oriented buyer, the key distinction is between The Glen Club's own access model and The Glen's identity as a planned community. The club itself is operated by KemperSports as a semi-private facility: it sells public daily-fee tee times (reported around $165-$200+) alongside a genuine paid membership program with initiation and annual dues. It is not an equity-private, invitation-only, or mandatory-membership club, and no source found ties homeownership anywhere in The Glen to club access. What qualifies The Glen Club here is the unusually direct, documented planning relationship between the course and the surrounding development -- it was built as part of the same master redevelopment plan as the residential neighborhoods around it, not simply located near pre-existing homes.