This is a George Fazio course that was given a recent facelift by nephew Tom and is 97 on GOLF Magazine s ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the U S Butler is an all male club in suburban Chicago that placed as high as No 62 on the magazine s world list in 1989 its second to last year hosting the PGA Tour s Western Open where it was rated as the toughest track on Tour A graceful parkland layout menaced by numerous water hazards Butler s nasty par 4 18th is a bucolic yet much feared closer with a creek that snakes up the left side of the green Our panelists were smitten with the club s recent tree thinning project as well as the repositioning and deepening of bunkers