With golf chairman George Herbert Walker alongside, Macdonald began construction of the course.

[4][5] Long considered a pinnacle of WASP culture in St. Louis,[6] the club disaffiliated from the USGA in the early 1990s rather than admit any Black members[7] and chose to remain unaffiliated several years later even as other clubs began admitting Black members.

[6] In 1919, Stewart Maiden left East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, to fulfill a promise he made if St. Louis was awarded the 1921 U.S.

When his ball clipped a tree, it fell into the creek running down the right side, losing the hole.

With Guilford winning 5 and 4 over Evans in the semifinals, and Gardner defeating Hunter 6 and 5, the Finals pairing was set.

Stirling, a 3-time U.S. Women's Amateur Champion, was another of the East Lake "whiz kids" taught by Stewart Maiden.

Among the favorites for the title were: Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Bobby Locke, Jim Ferrier, and Sam Snead.

While it was generally believed that the course, playing 6,542 yards, would be overwhelmed by the players and that Ralph Guldahl's record score of 64 would be broken, in the end, the pros would shoot no less than 67, with amateur Jim McHale Jr. posting the championship's lowest score of 65 in this third round.

(Before 1965, the final two rounds of the U.S. Open were played on Saturday) During the 18-hole playoff, Worsham and Snead approached the 18th green, once again tied.

(In this era in golf, the continuous putting rule was not in effect, so the player furthest from the hole would putt first).

After defeating Phil Rogers 6 and 5 in the third round he met relative-unknown Charles Lewis of Little Rock, Arkansas.

In the quarterfinals he met Bill Hyndman, giving him his toughest match as Beman won 1up in 19 holes.

With a stellar field that included Laura Baugh, Carol Semple, Beth Daniel, Jane Bastanchury Booth, Mary Bea Porter, Deborah Massey, Cynthia Hill, and Barbara McIntire, it would be Mary Budke, from Dundee, Oregon, who would take the title.

However, this event would be a team competition, the 2014 Curtis Cup match between top female amateurs from the United States against those representing Great Britain and Ireland.

The individual matches on Sunday saw University of Alabama's Emma Talley, the 2012 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion, earn the deciding point on the fifteenth green as the U.S. team reclaimed the Curtis Cup.