Holes
18
Par
71
Yards
6,274
Peak Fee
$
A.W. Tillinghast โ the architect behind Winged Foot, Bethpage Black, San Francisco GC, and Baltusrol โ 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 โ the only PGA Tour event ever held in the Kansas City area โ 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 โ extraordinary value for a Tillinghast original anywhere in America. The course also has historical significance on the African American Heritage Trail of Kansas City.
6900 Swope Memorial Dr, Kansas City, MO 64132, USA