At the SouthtownStar, we've always listed Glenwoodie as co-designed by Harry Collis and Jack Daray, based on what we were told when the Jemsek family leased the course from the Archdiocese of Chicago.
The junior tournament I mentioned is the SouthtownStar Challenge, which turns 21 this year. It's become the biggest independent junior tourney in the Chicago area, and it's always been played at Glenwoodie, thanks at first to the Jemseks, and now the town, which bought the course for $5 million about a decade ago.
The greens are virtually unchanged from the originals, big and sloping and difficult once over 10 on the stimp. The par-4 16th, with the second shot over the chasm created by Jones Creek, is one of the best in Chicagoland. The green is, along with the 12th, the most canted on the course. It's easy to roll a putt off the green and down the hill.
Originally, Glenwoodie was Glenwood Country Club, a private all-Jewish club, much like Ravisloe and Idlewild, but that changed within a few years of it opening in the early 1920s. It went public, and for a time was one of Al Capone's numerous golf hangouts.
There's a plan to build housing to the east of the course, which would mean a two-lane road running between the nines, and a repositioned second green and third tee, plus a new (and needed) clubhouse, but that project is at a standstill now, and likely will be for years, and perhaps forever.