De-Mil Putting Course

The De-Mil Putting Course was located ar 6422 North Milwaukee Avenue, near the intersection of DEvon and MILwaukee Avenues. When I played there in the early 1960s, a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet was on the corner, and the course wrapped around the back of it. There’s an apartment building on the site today.

This was a pretty simple layout. Friends told me that the owner’s teenage son regularly toured the eighteen holes in 30 strokes or less. That was a great example of Local Knowledge.

The photo dates from 1979. I had snapped a couple of pictures of the nearby Henry W. Rincker House and had one shot left on the roll of film. A photo of the Rincker landmark is featured in my next book, so I decided to share this companion photo here.

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