Quaker Ridge Golf Club
There are low-profile courses, and there are really low-profile courses. Then there’s Quaker Ridge Golf Club, which has long held the reputation of being one of America’s most low-key classic courses. For those familiar with its virtues, Quaker Ridge is as well regarded and admired as nearly any course in the country. For most […]
Pound Ridge Golf Club, New York
Pete Dye’s courses have induced plenty of different states among golfers, from the frustration of hitting multiple shots into the water at TPC Sawgrass’ 17th hole to the elation of hitting a career drive toward the lighthouse at Harbour Town Golf Links’ 18th hole. But until now, there was one state Dye had never explored: New York. […]
Upstate New York: An Overshadowed Golf Region
When it comes to golf in the state of New York, most of the attention is focused on the New York City metropolitan area—for good reason. After all, it is home to U.S. Open sites Bethpage, Shinnecock Hills and Winged Foot, not to mention courses like National Golf Links of America, Maidstone, Garden City and Quaker Ridge that […]
Inwood Country Club
It has been generations since the Belt Parkway and Kennedy Airport bestowed their mixed blessings on the town of Inwood. Today a drive down the JFK Expressway and Rockaway Boulevard carries you past blank-looking freight warehouses and the backs of strip malls, with occasional, reassuring glimpse of scrub pines or an old bait shack. […]
Garden City Golf Club, New York
We might say Garden City Golf Club has aged gracefully, except it hasn’t aged at all. It is a small, private club frozen in time, in the heart of a prosperous Long Island town just east of New York City. It is a place where golf simply feels more like golf, where your second step […]
Friar’s Head
Among the American courses I’ve played in 50-plus years, those approaching perfection fit on a short list led by Cypress Point, where my stepfather was a member and where I first got pathologically serious about golf. Alongside it is the National Golf Links of America, my home course since college days. Pine Valley and […]
Engineers Country Club, Long Island
Herbert Strong’s name today brings scant recognition. Renowned in his day as a player, teacher and course architect, the Englishman has all but been forgotten. For decades, so too was his masterpiece—Engineers Country Club, located on the north shore of Long Island, considered when it opened one of the best courses in the United […]
Atlantic Golf Club
The story of Atlantic Golf Club begins with Lowell M. Shulman, a highly successful developer of corporate office parks and buildings in metropolitan New York. Schulman was born and raised in Westchester County and started a lifelong fascination with golf in 1940 as a caddie at Winged Foot Golf Club. In the mid-1960s he […]
Anglebrook Golf Club, New York
Last hurrahs don’t often get the crowds cheering. Alfred Hitchcock signed off with Family Plot, Stanley Kubrick with Eyes Wide Shut. Sure, Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, but most Hall of Famers finish with pop-ups. Robert Trent Jones Sr. capped an unparalleled career in course design with Anglebrook Golf Club. His final […]
