Olympia Fields is one of the few private clubs in the U.S. with multiple courses ranked, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The first Club President was Amos Alonzo Stagg, the famous college football head coach and athletic director at nearby University of Chicago.

It features some significant elevation changes, a meandering creek and hundreds of native oak trees.

It is a half-timbered English Tudor-style building with an 80-foot-high (24 m), four-faced clock tower that has become the trademark of the club.

Includes amateur and professional major championships The Western Open was historically an important event in golf, a near-major.