Our Picks for The 10 Best Golf courses in Pennsylvania
1. Oakmont Country Club
Address: 1233 Hulton Rd, Oakmont, Pennsylvania 15139, Allegheny County
Type of field: Links
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 147
Course Rating: 77.5
Total par (men’s tees): 71
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,255
Scorecard: Link
Introduced in 1903 by designer Henry Fownes, Oakmont Country Club has hosted more combined USGA and PGA championships than any other course in the U.S., including nine United States Opens, five U.S. Amateurs, three PGA Championships, and two U.S. Women’s Opens. Its golf course is regarded as the “oldest top-ranked golf course in the United States.”
2. East at Merion Golf Club
Address: 450 Ardmore Ave, Ardmore, Pennsylvania 19003, Delaware County
Type of field: Links
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 146
Course Rating: 73.4
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,590
Scorecard: Link
Merion East has long considered the best course on the tightest acreage in America. The club has two courses: the East Course, and the West Course. The East Course has been consistently rated in the top 10, #5 in 2015, by Golf Digest in the annual “America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses”, and it has hosted five U.S. Opens, most recently in 2013.
3. Aronimink Golf Club
Address: 3600 St Davids Road, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (PA) 19073, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 123
Course Rating: 73.6
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,955
Scorecard: Link
Aronimink is currently ranked 78th in Golf Digest’s “Greatest Courses,” 44th in “Toughest Courses” and 55th in Golfweek’s “Classic Courses.” The course in play today at Aronimink Golf Club opened in 1928 and Dornoch’s most famous son, Donald Ross, originally designed it.
4. Country Club Of Scranton (Old)
Address: 1001 Morgan Hwy, Clarks Summit, PA 18411, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 138
Course Rating: 74.9
Total par (men’s tees): 72
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,015
Scorecard: Link
The “New Nine,” as it was named, was designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan in 1988 and, like the original course, is best known for its large undulating greens. Golf The Country Club of Scranton is host to an original 18-hole course designed by the famous Golf Course Architect Walter Travis in 1927. Sixty years then passed before Michael Hurdzan was called in to add another 9-hole circuit in 1988, expanding the club’s golf offering to 27 holes.
5. Fox Chapel Golf Club
Address: 426 Fox Chapel Rd, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238, Allegheny County
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 137
Course Rating: 73.3
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,705
Scorecard: Link
Fox Chapel is a true gem located 10 miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh and across the Alleghany River from famed Oakmont Country Club. Fox Chapel was originally designed by Seth Raynor and opened for play in 1925. It features many template holes that both CB Macdonald and Raynor made famous. The Fazio Design team completed a restoration master plan with the member-based committee in 2015.
6. Wissahickon Clubhouse
Address: 6025 West Valley Green Road, Flourtown, Pennsylvania ( PA) 19031, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 138
Course Rating: 74.7
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,119
Scorecard: Link
A.W. Tillinghast crafted the Flourtown golf course at The Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1922. The layout was renamed Wissahickon in the new millennium. In 2013, architect Keith Foster lovingly restored the Wissahickon course to a standard that Tillinghast would approve of. Wissahickon hosted the PGA Constellation Senior Players Championship in 2016.
7. Lancaster (Meadowcreek & Dogwood)
Address: 1466 New Holland Pike, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601, Lancaster County
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 139
Course Rating: 73
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,850
Scorecard: Link
Lancaster has 3 distinct nine-hole courses named Meadowcreek, Dogwood and Highlands. By 1920, the club had moved to its present location, employing William Flynn to lay out a new 18-hole course. The original Meadowcreek and Dogwood nines (known as the Old or Flynn course) combine to form the foremost 18-hole combination here at Lancaster Country Club.
8. Huntingdon Valley (Toomey & Flynn)
Address: 2295 Country Club Dr, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 138
Course Rating: 74.8
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 7,004
Scorecard: Link
Huntingdon Valley Country Club is one of the elder statesmen of US golf clubs, inaugurated in 1887. William S. Flynn and Howard C. Toomey designed and built what was termed a “supercourse” in the local papers and it opened for play in April of 1928.
9. Lehigh Country Club
Address: 2319 S Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA 18103, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Private
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 127
Course Rating: 72.1
Total par (men’s tees): 70
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,595
Scorecard: Link
Known as one of the most beautiful and natural parkland courses in the world. The club moved to its present site in 1928 and the master router William S Flynn, who was perhaps the most respected and influential architect of the “Philadelphia School” of golf course design, designed the course. Situated along the Little Lehigh (stream) in the rolling hills of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
10. Philadelphia (Spring Mill)
Address: 1601 Spring Mill Road, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania (PA) 19035, USA
Type of field: Parkland
Course access: Public
Length of play: 18-hole course
Slope index: 126
Course Rating: 68.9
Total par (men’s tees): 71
Total yardage (men’s tees): 6,976
Scorecard: Link
Philadelphia Country Club is one of the oldest in the country, formed by John C. Bullit in 1890. Land was purchased at Gladwyne in 1926 for the purpose of constructing an 18-hole layout and this was designed by the William S. Flynn and Howard C. Toomey company, opening in 1930 as the Spring Mill course.
