Local architect Gil Hanse built the Applebrook Golf Club course in 2001 and the construction of small greens and jagged bunkers imbue the layout with classic, Golden Age styling.
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Local architect Gil Hanse built the Applebrook Golf Club course in 2001 and the construction of small greens and jagged bunkers imbue the layout with classic, Golden Age styling.
Applebrook Golf Club
Situated at Malvern within Philly’s estimable Main Line and nestled in the hills of Chester County, the course at Applebrook Golf Club is a Gil Hanse design that first opened for play in 2001, where holes start and finish next to a clubhouse that sits on the highest part of the property.
In the book The American Private Golf Club Guide, Daniel Wexler describes Applebrook as “a classic Golden Age-style layout complete with small greens, attractive, rough-edged bunkering and lots of native grasses to frame the entire picture.”
The author continues: “Applebrook took some stylistic cues from that most legendary of Philadelphia courses, Merion… There is far more subtlety here than on most modern designs which, perhaps more than anything, is what gives Applebrook its classic feel.”