Norwood Hills of St Louis will host new PGA Tour Champions event in 2020.
This 36 hole course was designed by Wayne Stiles in early 1920s.
Have any Wayne Stiles fans played this course recently? How much of his work still exists?
https://www.pgatour.com/champions/news/2019/10/08/pga-tour-champions-coming-to-st--louis.htmlhttps://www.norwoodhills.com/golfNorwood was added to The National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
This request form has some good history and a few photos.
https://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/05000084.pdfIn this Bob Labbance & Kevin Mendik interview posted on this site in April 2008, see the 3rd Q where they discuss Wayne Stiles & Norwood.
http://golfclubatlas.com/feature-interview/bob-labbance-and-kevin-mendik/I believe John Kavanaugh used to be a member at Norwood. My brother was a member from mid-1980s, to very early 2000s before moving to Algonquin Golf Club. I caddied there for a few tournaments, and used to play on an annual basis with my brothers.
The West course is the "championship" course (Hogan won 1948 PGA Championship on this course). More renovations have occurred on the West course. The East is barely 6000 yards, although not punishing, it is also not boring, and has some good strategy.
These two courses are overlooked as secondary in the St. Louis area after St. Louis CC, Bellerive, Old Warson. And even Boone Valley, St. Albans, and Glen Echo, often get more talk than Norwood. However, these are quite good classic golf course.
And it is usually one of the more affordable clubs while still offering very good facilities. (The 36 holes allow the course to host large outings on most Monday's thus creating a healthy revenue stream for a club where most of the membership live some distance from where the club is located.)
I might put the West course at 6 on the Doak scale, (although possibly upgrade it to a 7 for the uniqueness of a Stiles course in the Midwest).
East course maybe 5 on Doak scale.