Classic Course: Quaker Ridge
With its gently rolling terrain, stately trees, and intimate playing environment, Quaker Ridge epitomizes Westchester County parkland golf. The course’s routing is Muirfield-esque—the holes of the front nine run counter-clockwise around the club’s perimeter, embracing the clockwise homeward nine—allowing for a highly satisfying exploration of the property. Jimmy Demaret once said that Quaker Ridge could […]
The 5 Most Underrated Golf States
By Adam Schupak Underrated. By definition it means to underestimate, play down, sell short—you get the drift. For a golf course, or in this case the entire collective layouts of a state to be termed underrated, it’s a bit like being considered The Best Player Never to Win a Major—is it a compliment or […]
Classic Course: Somerset Hills Country Club
By Tom Ierubino Hidden away in Bernardsville, N.J., seven miles from the USGA’s headquarters in Far Hills, Somerset Hills is a place where time seems to stand still—but in a good way. There are no cart paths, and most of the golfers walk. The understated clubhouse is more about utility than grandeur. The same […]
Classic Course: San Francisco Golf Club
By Brian Hewitt A.W. Tillinghast’s only West Coast design has been restored to its original splendor In 1918, when the San Francisco Golf Club unveiled what turned out to be A. W. Tillinghast’s only original design west of Texas, it produced barely a murmur. No one knew the course would set the bar for […]
Philadelphia Cricket Club, Wissahickon Renovation
When A.W. Tillinghast died, he requested that his ashes be spread “where he loved life the most”—along the Wissahickon Creek, a stream that winds through one of his finest designs, the Wissahickon Course at Philadelphia Cricket Club. Wissahickon is the most famous of Philly Cricket’s three courses. It opened in 1922, at the peak of […]
The Illustrious Career of A.W. Tillinghast
The talented terror from Philly was recently inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame
Philadelphia Cricket Club, Wissahickon Course
For golf courses, Philadelphia is best known for Merion and Pine Valley (the latter being much more Philly than Jersey, despite its address), plus Aronimink, Gulph Mills, Huntingdon Valley, and a bunch of others. The city also produced its own “school” of architects, five locals—native or adopted—who had a huge impact on golf in early […]
Rockaway Hunting Club
After a recent sprucing up—and surviving Hurricane Sandy—this suburban/seaside near-links is both tougher and truer to its roots
Quaker Ridge Golf Club
Steeped in history and strategy, this classic Tillinghast layout is better than ever after a Gil Hanse restoration
Bethpage Black, Bethpage State Park
After the muni layout proved its legendary difficulty during the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open, expect more flexibility in the setup for The Barclays
