About

 

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 life long interest in golf course architecture.

Dan is a member of The Lido in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal, England, Desert Forest Golf Club in Carefree, Az. 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 2023 Dan repeated as the Senior Champion in the Wisconsin Hickory Open held at Langford and Moreau’s Lawsonia Links.

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 is currently writing and providing photography  for a centennial history of the  Sunset Ridge Country Club due out in 2024. Dan is also completing a history of the Old Elm Club golf course wrote, designed and provided 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