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Breaking News-December 2025

Dan Moore and Craig Haltom hired to create Master Plan for Langford and Moreau designed Ozaukee Country Club in Illinois.

BREAKING NEWS-JUNE 2025

Dan Moore and Craig Haltom hired to create Master Plans for Langford and Moreau designed Ridgemoor Country Club in Illinois and Texarkana Country Club in Arkansas.

Dan Moore is an avid golfer who lives in Chicago, Illinois.  Dan learned to play golf on a nine hole course laid out by Tom Bendelow. He showed an early interest in golf architecture at age 9 when he designed a golf course in a large field behind his childhood home which featured a water tower, an island green (grassy center of a cul de sac), a minimal number of strategically placed trees which also served as flagsticks and a turtle back green (pitchers mound of the little league field).  Inspired by watching Nicklaus and Watson battle it out on the windblown links of The Open Championship, he developed a lifelong interest in golf course architecture.

Dan works as a specialist in the architecture of Langford and Moreau, serving as a consulting historian to many Langford courses. In 2025, Dan is working on Master Plans for Innsbrook Country Club in Indiana, Ridgemoor Country Club in Illinois (with architect Craig Haltom), and Texarkana Country Club in Arkansas (with architect Craig Haltom). Previously, Dan worked on the restoration of The Wakonda Club (2023 with architect Tyler Rae), the Lawsonia Links (2023-2024 with architect Craig Haltom), and Riverside Country Club (with architect Dave Esler).

Dan is a member of The Lido in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal, England, Old Barnwell in Aiken, S.C., and is a founding member of the Sand Valley Golf Resort.

In March 2016, Dan won the Lord Brassey Challenge Cup, a 64-player Match Play competition played at the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club since 1911. Dan finished in the top ten of the 2016 Illinois Senior Amateur Championship and was a Sectional Co-Medalist and qualified for the 2016 USGA Senior Amateur Championship. In 2020, Dan won the Illinois Super Senior Championship. In 2023, Dan repeated as the Senior Champion in the Wisconsin Hickory Open held at Langford and Moreau’s Lawsonia Links. In 2024, Dan won the US Senior Hickory Championship held at Kenosha Country Club

Dan is currently working on a book, Golf Course Architecture in the Chicago District: 1892 to 1940. The book will cover the history of golf course architecture in the Chicago area from its inception in 1892 through the Golden Age. Dan wrote and provided photography for a centennial history of the  Sunset Ridge Country Club completed in May 2024. Dan is also completing a history of the Old Elm Club golf course where he wrote, designed, and provided all golf course photography.

He founded Dan Moore Golf to pursue his passion in the history of golf architecture and photography.

Lord Brassey Challenge Cup 2016

Royal Portrush Calamity at Sunrise