Westmoreland Country Club

Westmoreland Country Club was founded in 1911 when a group of men from Evanston Golf Club, located on the canal banks of Evanston, became dissatisfied with the space limitations of their course as the City of Evanston expanded. David McCurrach Jr. and John N. Welter, Westmoreland's first President, arranged financial backing from their friend William S. Mason, and then sold 300 memberships in the new club before work had begun on the new golf course.The men received options from farmers on all of the real estate from Golf Road to Glenview Road and from Ewing Avenue in Evanston to what is now Skokie Boulevard. The committee selected the 128-acre rectangular site on which Westmoreland now stands because it was underlaid by a 25-foot bed of gravel, which provides ideal drainage for turf. Scotsman McCurrach was assigned to name the new club, and he decided on Westmoreland because the group had indeed moved West-for-more-land.