Located in the Ohio River Valley, the course at Williams Country Club has been in play ever since the club was formed back in 1932.
Overall rating







Located in the Ohio River Valley, the course at Williams Country Club has been in play ever since the club was formed back in 1932.

Williams Country Club
Located in the Ohio River Valley, golf at Williams Country Club was played here just prior to the club’s formation back in 1932 when Emil Loeffler – greens keeper at Oakmont – was tasked with setting out the fairways on land that was then known as “the old Griffith farm”.
Named after J.C. Williams, the president of Weirton Steel, who owned the property, the Williams course started life as a 9-hole layout and it only became a full 18-hole affair in 1937 when a clubhouse was also brought into use on top of a ridge overlooking the Ohio River, some 400 feet below.
Some of the more remarkable holes include back-to-back par fives at the 562-yard 3rd and 544-yard 4th, the water-protected par three 12th and the 497-yard 14th, played to a sand-encircled raised green.
The steel company withdrew its involvement in the club fifty years after its formation and it was successfully operated by the membership until 2015, as evidenced in the club hosting West Virginia Open competitions, Tri-State PGA tournaments and other such prestigious events.
In May of 2015, James C. Markovitz, a Pennsylvania businessman and long-term member of Williams Country Club purchased the property with the intention of restoring it to its former glory. Since then, a bunker renovation programme has completed and more than 300 trees removed.
World Top 100 Golf Courses
The latest ranking of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World serves as the ultimate global golf bucket list. Most members of our World Top 100 Panel are seasoned golfers, each playing 20-30 of these courses annually while travelling extensively over decades to form their opinions on others. We recognise that opinions vary—even among our panel members. Rankings are subjective, and there are undoubtedly 50 or more courses in the UK and USA alone that could easily fit onto this list. Links Golf Pilgrimages The rankings
Cypress Point Club
California, United States
Pine Valley Golf Club
New Jersey, United States
Royal County Down (Championship)
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
New York, United States
National Golf Links of America
New York, United States