Riverside started life in 1945 as Club Radar in Springville, Utah: a social organisation for local businessmen, built around food, drink and company rather than golf. It stayed that way for a decade. In 1955 the charter members voted to expand or relocate to somewhere a golf course could actually be built, and after a long search they found this ground in north Provo.

The new identity arrived first. At the 1959 annual meeting the members adopted the name Riverside Country Club, and in 1960 the club became a formal entity — thirty-four equity members and sixteen social members to begin with. The clubhouse opened on May 11, 1960 and the swimming pool followed on July 15.

The golf came two years later. William F. Bell — son of William P. Bell and one of the busiest architects working in the American West at the time — designed the eighteen, and it opened for play in June 1962. It is a par 72 laid out along the valley floor beneath the Wasatch, with the mountains standing over the whole property.

Members approved a major renovation between 2008 and 2010, and in 2012 the club opened a 42,000-square-foot clubhouse and a 12,000-square-foot pro shop. Sixty-some years on from a social club with no course, Riverside is one of the anchors of Utah County golf.

Museum-quality Riverside Country Club map art, traced from real course data — William F. Bell's Provo layout beneath the Wasatch, opened in 1962. Four designs, six sizes, or personalized with your own round photo.

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