Swope Memorial Golf Course

• 🏆PGA Tour Kansas City Open Invitational Host (1949) — PGA Tour
• 🏆USGA Women's Amateur Public Links Host (2005) — USGA

A.W. Tillinghast — the architect behind Winged Foot, Bethpage Black, San Francisco GC, and Baltusrol — re-designed Swope Memorial in 1934 as one of his career's rare municipal projects. The course was originally built in 1915 as the first public golf course in Kansas City; Tillinghast's redesign on the property's hilly terrain in Swope Park is considered among his most accessible work. Swope hosted the 1949 Kansas City Open Invitational — the only PGA Tour event ever held in the Kansas City area — and the 2005 USGA Women's Amateur Public Links. A complete historical restoration completed in 2025 brought the course back to closer to Tillinghast's original specifications. Public muni pricing keeps it firmly in the $ band — extraordinary value for a Tillinghast original anywhere in America. The course also has historical significance on the African American Heritage Trail of Kansas City.