Commonwealth National

An Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay design, the course at Commonwealth National Golf Club is routed around a very tight tract of land that lies adjacent to Horsham Air Guard Station. It’s acknowledged as a tough track so golfers are advised to choose their tees carefully, especially if playing here for the first time.

“Commonwealth National is something of an uneven design, both in terms of its aesthetic (holes are alternatively bordered by attractively wooded wetlands or corporate office buildings) and its playability, writes Daniel Wexler in The American Private Golf Club Guide.

The author continues: “Indeed, it features several notably strong tests but also at least four holes where longer hitters must lay up of the tee due to encroaching rough/wetlands/water – including the 491-yard par five 9th, which might as well play as a par four given its lack of a realistic lay-up zone.

The better holes include the 389-yard 4th (a genuine dogleg over water), the 561-yard 11th (a solid strategic hole which unfortunately doglegs around a large parking lot), the 183-yard 12th (with water on three sides), and the 431-yard 14th, which crosses wetlands before running a wooded gauntlet to a small, bunkerless green.”