Nevillewood

The golf course of the Club at Nevillewood is a Jack Nicklaus Signature design and its demanding par four 9th has been listed as a “Bear’s Best” hole, one of Jack’s greatest holes worldwide. Situated ten miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh, the fairways are routed around a substantial residential development that lies between Presto and Rennerdale on the outskirts of the city.

“Largely a formula 1990s Jack Nicklaus production – not quite ‘inspired’ but offering enough strategic considerations to create some genuine playing interest” is how Daniel Wexler describes the course in his book in The American Private Golf Club Guide. “For the most part,” the author continues, “there is enough here to safely make Nevillewood one of the Steel City’s top five options.

It occupies typically rolling Western Pennsylvania terrain, which is nicely utilized at holes like the ravine-crossing 180-yard 5th, the 177-yard 8th (with sand and a pronounced fallaway left), the 546-yard 12th (where a well-placed bunker essentially creates a split-fairway option), and the 446-yard 16th, a tough two-shotter played to an elevated green.

The 416-yard 9th and 427-yard 18th are both exciting (if typical) water-orientated finishes, with the 9th green being fronted by several waterfall-connected ponds and the 18th attempting another split-fairway motif around a near-centerline bunker.”