HISTORY

The DuPont Country Club, located in historic Brandywine Valley, was incorporated on May 15, 1920, with a total of 600 members. The first “clubhouse” consisted of a two-story house and baseball diamond and grandstand. The property had previously been a gun club. The DuPont Course, a 9-hole layout with clay tees and sand greens, designed by Wilfred Reid, was constructed in 1921. By 1924, the club membership outgrew its original building and a new clubhouse was built on the grounds of the present-day Experimental Station. Also at this time, legendary golf course architect Donald Ross was brought in to design a full 18-hole golf course to replace the original 9 holes. This golf course opened in 1924.

A second 18-hole golf course, “Nemours”, designed by Alfred Tull, was added in 1938. At this time, the membership totaled 1,700. With the expansion of the Experimental Station into a broadened research center, the Donald Ross course was lost. Plans were made to construct a new clubhouse and golf course. Land from an adjoining farm was purchased in 1946 and a new 18-hole championship course, “The DuPont” (also designed by Alfred Tull), was built that winter. On May 28, 1949, the present-day Georgian Colonial clubhouse was dedicated with a grand ceremony. The Montchanin Course was originally built in 1935 as a 9-hole golf course, formerly known as The Black Gates Course. In 1960 the “Montchanin” course was reconstructed to an executive 18-hole golf course growing the DuPont Country Club’s memberships to 5,000. In 2001, golf course architect Lester George was hired to restore and update the DuPont Course to better meet the needs of today’s golfers. The new DuPont Course opened for play July 9, 2005. This facility was the second in the State of Delaware to receive Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary certification. Sound integrated pest management and environmental awareness is practiced at all times.