51 on Golfweek's list of the Best Classic Courses in the United States. Tournament history Over the years, Beverly has been the host of one U.S. Amateur (1931); one U.S. Senior Amateur (2009); one Western Junior (2011); four Western Opens (1910, 1963, 1967 and 1970); two Western Amateurs (1930, 2014); three Women's Western Opens (1937, 1960 and 1965); and the 1943 Chicago Victory National Open, a wartime substitute for the National Open. The Beverly Country Club hosted the 2011 Western Golf Association (WGA) Western Junior, making it one of only a handful of clubs that has hosted three original WGA Golf Championships: the Western Open (known now as the BMW Championship), the Western Amateur and the Western Junior. In 2014, Beverly hosted the Western Amateur for the first time since 1930. The tournament, played July 28 – August 2, was won by Beau Hossler. The tournament also saw Beverly's long-standing course record of 64, broken by Doug Ghim with an 8-under 63, in the second round of stroke play. The course record had stood for 47 years. The Western Amateur will return to Beverly in 2026. Famous tournament champions 1910 Western Open won by Chick Evans In 1925, Virginia Van Wie captured one of her first championships at Beverly Country Club 1931 U.S. Amateur won by Francis Ouimet 1963 Western Open won by Arnold Palmer 1967 Western Open won by Jack Nicklaus 1970 Western Open won by Hugh Royer Jr. Patty Berg and Babe Zaharias have each held the women's course record which is still held by Susie Maxwell Caddie tradition The Beverly Country Club has a long, proud relationship with the Western Golf Association and the Evans Scholars Foundation, a charitable trust which provides full-tuition scholarships renewable for up to four years to deserving caddies. The program started in 1930 and was originally endowed with the donated golf winnings of Chick Evans, all of whose golf winnings went toward the scholarships as a way of preserving his amateur status. Today the Evans Scholarship Foundation is supported by tens of thousands of contributors across the country, one of the largest of which is the Beverly Country Club. With 356 of the 11,556 Evans Scholars alumni, The Beverly Country Club boasts the record for the largest number of Evans Scholar alumni from any single club in America. Holes References "Beverly Country Club" "Golf Club Atlas" "Western Golf Association" Golf clubs and