In this week's DailySouthtown Landmarks column, Ravisloe’s clubhouse and golf course became the first golf course to be accredited as an arboretum by the Morton Register of Arboreta this past June.
A statue of famed golf course architect Donald Ross was carved from the stump of a giant, old tree near the clubhouse at Ravisloe Country Club in Homewood, which was recently granted arboretum status by the Morton Register of Arboreta.
That mainly involves operating on injured dogs, repairing cruciate ligaments and fractures at his veterinary facility in Highland, Indiana. Bob Carpenter, general manager of Ravisloe Country Club in Homewood, points out his favorite tree at the golf club, a bald cypress near the end of Hole 1 that he likes so much that he's had several other trees of the same species planted nearby.
His favorite tree is a younger specimen, albeit still stately, of bald cypress near the end of the first hole — a conifer with needles “as soft as can be” that turns colorful and sheds leaves in autumn. “I’ve been aware of the damage the industrial revolution has done to the earth for a long time,” he said.
The club’s name is derived from an early plan by the Standard Club of Chicago to purchase land for its golf course along the Calumet River owned by the Ravisloot family. The property plan changed, but they kept the name when the course instead was developed along the Illinois Central in what would become a private golf Mecca that included Olympia Fields, Flossmoor, Idlewild and Calumet country clubs.
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