Westmoreland Country Club. Westmoreland Country Club was founded in 1911 when a group of men from Evanston Golf Club, located on the canal banks of Evanston, became dissatisfied with the space limitations of their course as the City of Evanston expanded. David McCurrach Jr. and John N. Welter, Westmoreland’s first President, arranged financial backing from their friend William S. Mason, and then sold 300 memberships in the new club before work had begun on the new golf course.