Golf Courses - Philadelphia

Recognized almost universally as the best golf course on the planet, Pine Valley is built among the sandy pinelands of southern New Jersey, around 20 miles south-east of Philadelphia. The course wa...

The origins of Philadelphia’s treasured Merion Golf Club date back to the 1865 formation of the Merion Cricket Club, one of America’s earliest sporting organizations. Members of the cricket club, w...

Founded in 1896 and named after an Indian tribal chief, the Aronimink club moved to its current home in Newtown Square in 1926, where Donald Ross laid out a very interesting golf course across a ge...

The Philadelphia Cricket Club is apparently the only club in the United States to have built a different golf course in each of the last three centuries.

The club's principal attraction is ...

The Old Course at the Stonewall Golf Club was the first private course by enigmatic architect Tom Doak, who threw himself so fully into this project that he moved his young family to the area while...

Built within a steep valley, Huntingdon Valley is a 27-hole facility design by William Flynn in 1928 for an established club that moved to its current home when his holes first opened. With a stron...

A storied club in the suburbs of Philadelphia, the Philly Country Club hosted the 1939 US Open on a William Flynn layout that was altered in the years after the Open as its clubhouse was relocated ...

Another fine Philly course designed by William Flynn, this track occupies a small site with some substantial gradients, but Flynn did a fine job building solid golf holes and routing his layout acr...

In Volume 3 of The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Tom Doak published that:

“It’s scary to think a course this good doesn’t always make lists of Philadelphia’s top 10. (It would be ther...

The Old Course at the Stonewall Golf Club was the first private course by enigmatic architect Tom Doak, who threw himself so fully into this project that he moved his young family to the area while...