[1] The club has its roots in an informal golf course in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1896, Hugh C. Ward, Charles Fessenden Morse, Jefferson Brumback, H. L. Harmon, A. W. Childs, C. J. Hubbard, J. E. Logan, Gardiner Lathrop, St. Clair Street, Ford Harvey, E. H. Chapman, E. S. Washburn, and W. B. Clarke incorporated the Kansas City Country Club[2] and leased a pasture at what today is Loose Park in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1925, the club moved its course a mile west to the banks of Brush Creek in Mission Hills.

[4] The club did not allow Jewish members until 1990 when it admitted billionaire H&R Block founder Henry Bloch.

[5] The club had initially rejected Henry Bloch for being Jewish, but changed course after pro golfer Tom Watson resigned his membership in protest.