KemperSports has added one of the top golf properties in Illinois to its fast-growing portfolio of private clubs.
The company has been hired to operate Bull Valley Golf Club, a 25-year-old property in exurban Chicago that narrowly avoided foreclosure last year.
“There are not a lot of courses in Chicago that can match the character of what Bull Valley has,” Doug Hellman, a senior vice president at KemperSports, told the Northwest Herald. “We’ll make it well worth the effort to go the extra distance to get to Bull Valley.”
Specifically, KemperSports has been directed to improve Bull Valley’s food and beverage offerings and to make the club “a premier destination for weddings and parties,” the newspaper says.
“We’re focusing on events,” said Gary Rabine, who paid less than $2 million for the club in 2012, “and [Kemper is] going to take that to another level.”
Bull Valley is the 15th private club in the Kemper Collection, a group that includes The Prairie Club in Valentine, Nebraska; Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey; and The Governors Club in Brentwood, Tennessee.