St. Louis, MO
Walters Golf
The location chosen for this project was 660 acres in southern St. Charles County between Interstate 70 and U.S. Highway 40. In the mid-1980's, St. Charles was centered primarily around the I-70 corridor. However, with Whittaker's knowledge and resources and Walters' experience with Bogey Hills, the pair had the perfect recipe needed to turn their vision into a reality. The result was Whitmoor Country Club, which currently serves the community like no other family club. Discussion about creating the Walters Golf Management company first occurred in 1992. At the time, the company managed both Bogey Hills and Whitmoor, but we understood that we had too few properties to support a golf management company and provide it with credibility and stability. history21.jpgAn opportunity to add another property to Walters' portfolio presented itself in 1993. While on a plane returning from vacation, Walters and his friend Jeff Smith, who at the time worked for the PGA, created a proposal for an upscale 18-hole public golf course on a stack of cocktail napkins. The pair was awarded the project, again teamed with the Whittaker Family, and construction of the Missouri Bluffs Golf Club began. During construction of this Tom Fazio-designed course, WGM decided to give the public a sneak peek of the property to increase the excitement that surrounded its upcoming debut. Six months prior to opening, a three-day preview of the golf course and clubhouse was held. We only expected to welcome about 500 people on each of the three days. However, the excitement level in the golf community was already very high and ultimately more that 7,500 people toured the incomplete project during those three days. Upon its grand opening in 1995, The Missouri Bluffs Golf Club was named the third best public golf course in the country to open in 1995 by Golf Digest.
Golf One has not found authoritative public-access evidence for this course yet. The course remains in the guide without a public-play claim.
