Mayfield Sand Ridge (Mayfield)

Site of the US Women’s Amateur in 1920, the Mayfield course at Mayfield Sand Ridge Club is a classic design that’s laid out across a rolling landscape, with a couple of creeks coming into play on occasion.

“Many of Mayfield’s holes are laid out in the bottom-lands along a stream,” Tom Doak remarked in The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, “but it is the up-and-over holes to bridge the gaps between the valleys, like the 2nd and 9th, that make the course fascinating, and others like the 13th with its green site between two enormous mounds are simultaneously fun and stout. This is one of the few classic Golden Age designs where no one has done a proper restoration; I guess there’s just not enough potential work for any designer to portray themselves as a ‘Bert Way expert.’”

The Sand Ridge Golf Club from Chardon merged in 2006 with Mayfield Country Club forming the new Mayfield Sand Ridge Club allowing members of both establishments to use the facilities on offer at either location.

As if one merger was not enough, Cleveland’s venerable Oakwood Club amalgamated with Mayfield Sand Ridge Club in 2019, forgoing its Golden Age Donald Ross-designed course in the process.