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The Camargo Club is set amidst undulating countryside on the edge of Cincinnati in the State of Ohio. It’s a Seth Raynor jewel which opened for play in 1925.

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The Golf Club at New Albany in Ohio is one of Pete Dye’s earliest and most understated creations and the course feels mature way beyond its years.

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Scioto Country Club is the course where Jack Nicklaus developed from a pudgy junior to a world beater.

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For those readers who associate Inverness with a certain shy little Nessie, we can tell you that the Inverness Club has absolutely nothing to do with the Loch Ness monster.

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No expense was spared in the construction of Muirfield Village Golf Club, with bold bunkering, water hazards and narrow fairways that require pinpoint tee shots.

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Alec “Nipper” Campbell designed the golf course of the Moraine Country Club and it opened for play in 1930. A major Keith Foster renovation in 2015 has injected a new lease of life into this old classic.

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In 2003, the course at Brookside Country Club was completely renovated to recapture the essence of the original Donald Ross design.

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Host to the US Women’s Amateur in 2012, the Country Club originally moved to Pepper Pike in the mid 1920s, where William Flynn laid out eighteen holes that were both stylish and strategic.

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Kirtland Country Club’s old CH Alison course is routed over two distinct landforms; the front nine plays out on open, rolling terrain whilst the back nine weaves through a forested valley.

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Host to two US Opens and one PGA Championship, Canterbury Golf Club’s place in golfing history is assured. It’s not a long course but the site is delightfully undulating with rolling hills, brooks and wooded areas.

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The Pepper Pike Club’s next door neighbour, The Country Club, grabs most of the attention in this east end Cleveland suburb with both clubs sharing the architectural heritage of William Flynn.

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The late John Henderson McConnell founded the Double Eagle Club and the golf course was designed by the partnership of Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, opening for play in 1991.

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The 7,055-yard South course at the NCR Country Club has become known as the “thinking man’s course” because accuracy rather than length is key to a good score on this heavily wooded layout.

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Springfield Country Club was formed in 1898, but the course in play today is a 1922 Donald Ross design where a number of important events have been staged down the years...

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Harvey Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, originally established the Firestone Country Club in the late 1920s as a park for his employees.

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Designed by Pete Dye and his brother Roy, Fowler’s Mill Golf Course extends to three 9-hole circuits, named Lake, River and Maple, with the former two comprising the 7025-yard premier 18-hole layout.

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Founded in 1909, Hyde Park Golf & Country Club engaged Donald Ross to set out the course in 1920. Tim Liddy has recently restored the layout, researching old drawings before he expanded greens and remodelled bunkers.

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One of three 18-hole courses to be found at Firestone Country Club, the North is an engaging Robert Trent Jones Snr layout that debuted in 1969, ten years after the South course was unveiled.

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

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Alister MacKenzie drew up the plans for the golf complex at Ohio State University in the early 1930s but the doctor died soon afterwards so Perry Maxwell was given the contract.

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Bordered by the Black River, the old course at Elyria Country Club is a 1920s William Flynn layout that has handled the golfing tests of time rather well.

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A typical Dick Wilson track from the late 1950s, the 18-hole layout at Coldstream Country Club ends with three long, demanding, heavily bunkered par fours.

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One of two courses owned by the Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, Sand Ridge is an elegant course located in the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains around 30 miles from Cleveland.

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The Virtues Golf Club (formerly Longaberger) is a dramatic Arthur Hills design from 1999 and the challenge here is epitomised by the long par five 4th hole, where the fairway drops 150 feet between tee and green.

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A former PGA Champions Tour venue, the TPC River’s Bend course is routed around housing units within a residential development to the northeast of Cincinnati.

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The tree-lined layout at Manakiki Golf Course has been in operation as a public golf facility since 1961. Originally set out by Donald Ross, the course was extensively upgraded during the early 1990s, restoring much of its design intent.

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Occupying a property around a mile from the southern shores of Lake Erie, the course at Westwood Country Club is a C.H. Alison design, one of only two Ohio courses to bear the architectural stamp of Harry Colt’s associate.

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Kenwood Country Club was founded in 1930 by members of Cincinnati Country Club. Donald Ross was called in to help choose an appropriate property on the city outskirts, but Bill Diddel was selected to fashion two courses...

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Designed by Canadian architect Stanley Thompson in the 1920s, the Sleepy Hollow Golf Course opened as a private country club on property rented from the local authority before it became public in 1963.

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The Donald Ross-designed course at Westbrook Country Club dates back to 1922 and it’s hosted many regional and national events down the years, including the Ohio Seniors Golf Association Championship and the PGA Junior Series Championship.

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Established in 1894, Portage Country Club moved to its present location a decade after its formation. Ten years then passed before land became available, allowing William Langford to extend the course to 18 holes.

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Willie Park Junior was hired to lay out the course at Sylvania Country Club in 1919 and his design occupies a narrow, hilly property with the meandering Ottowa River brought into play on five of the holes.

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The Walter Travis-designed course at Youngstown Country Club was only his third 18-hole layout after Ekwanok in 1899 and Salisbury Links (now Cherry Valley Club) in 1907 and the cost of construction was reputed to be in the region of $75,000.

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The Golf Club at Stonelick Hills is a Jeff Osterfeld design, skilfully routed across heavily wooded terrain and around numerous ponds and lakes.

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The expansion of Interstate 71 has had such a dramatic impact to Kenwood Country Club's Kenview course that it now has some original holes, some that are only a few decades old, and others which are just a few years old.

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Maketewah Country Club was formed in 1910 and its original Tom Bendelow-designed course was refashioned within a decade of it opening by Donald Ross.

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Kevin Hargrave completed a large-scale renovation of Columbus Country Club's Championship course in 2018. The architect replaced bunkers with versions more akin to the style of Donald Ross as well as adding new tees and removing more than 1,500 trees.

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Designed by Stanley Thompson in the mid-1920s, the course at Chagrin Valley Country Club is laid out within a 300-acre property on the outskirts of Cleveland, with fairways routed around rather challenging terrain.

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Completely surrounded on all sides by dense housing, the course at Shaker Heights Country Club is a Donald Ross design from 1916 where the old master routed several holes around a meandering creek.

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Formed in 1927, Brookside Golf & Country Club offers its members a beautiful tree-lined layout that has hosted many US Open qualifying competitions. The Ohio State Amateur Championship was also held here in 2012.

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A challenging parkland layout, the Pete Dye-designed Avalon Lakes course debuted in 1967 and it's one of three 18-hole championship standard courses available to golfers at the Avalon Golf and Country Club.

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Featuring elevated tee positions on many of the holes, the 18-hole layout at EagleSticks Golf Club is routed across an undulating landscape where elevation changes occur with great regularity.

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Wedgewood Golf & Country Club was founded in 1988 and within three years of its formation, members were playing on a testing course that had been set out by Robert Trent Jones Jnr.

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Laid out on a gently rolling, wooded landscape, the fairways of the Jack Nicklaus-designed layout at Barrington Golf Club have been artistically routed around a number of lakes and ponds.

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Designed by Lanny Wadkins and opened for play in 2006, Pinnacle Golf Club is one of Ohio’s unsung courses that is thoughtfully routed across a tract of undulating and wooded former farmland. With natural elevation changes and healthy yardage, Pinnacle is an absorbing test.

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The North course at NCR Country Club is totally overshadowed by the South course, which has hosted several prestigious championships. Still, it’s a great complementary layout, offering a welcome change of pace to its more illustrious sibling.

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​Opened for play in the early 1990s, New Albany Country Club is a Jack Nicklaus-designed 27-hole golf facility located within a large suburb of Columbus, less than two miles from Pete Dye’s celebrated layout at The Golf Club.

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Located between Beavercreek and Xenia, the 18-hole layout at Country Club of the North is a Jack Nicklaus design dating to the early 1990s, when the fairways were routed around a residential development next to the Little Miami River.

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Lakewood Country Club is the only golf course in the state of Ohio that was designed by A.W. Tillinghast, one of a number of Golden Age routings in the Cleveland area. The club twice played host to The Cleveland Open (1966, 1968), hosting the PGA’s best.

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A William Newcomb and John Robinson co-design, Apple Valley Golf Course has been operated by the Mickley family since it was first unveiled in 1972. Water features prominently at two of the par threes, at the 5th and 16th holes.

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The modern day 18-hole layout at Piqua Country Club is an amalgam of two nines: the first nine holes were laid out by Donald Ross in the early 1920s then Ohioan Jack Kidwell was asked to add another nine in the mid-1970s.

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The course at Little Mountain Country Club is one of three operated by the same company with all three emanating from the drawing boards at Hurdzan/Fry Design.

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Set on what was formerly farm land and an active gravel quarry, the 18-hole layout at Ivy Hills Country Club is an early 1990s Steve Smyers design where fairways have been routed around several residential neighborhoods.

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With tree-lined fairways routed around a varied landscape of cliffs, lakes and natural waste areas, the course at Quarry Golf Club is certainly one of Canton’s most challenging.

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The course at the all-male Sharon Golf Club is a George Cobb creation from 1965, which stretches out beyond 7,000 yards from the tips and sports some of the biggest greens in Ohio.

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The original 18-hole course at Congress Lake Club was set out by Willie Park Junior in 1923 but, within a decade, it was extensively redesigned by Donald Ross when he replaced more than half the holes on the layout.

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Located close to Muirfield Village, the course at Tartan Fields Golf Club - an LPGA venue between 2002 and 2006 - is an Ed Seay and Arnold Palmer design from 1998. Some might question why anybody would ask The King to lay out a course right on the Golden Bear’s doorstep?

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Donald Ross laid out the course at the renamed Denison Golf Club at Granville in 1924, and it extends to a modest 6,559 yards from the tips. Tight and sloping fairways, coupled with firm and fast greens, make this a tough test.

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Originally laid out by Geoff Cornish and Brian Silva around the perimeter of the South course in the late 1980s, the West course at Firestone Country Club – home to the Ohio Senior Open – was completely remodeled by Tom Fazio in 2002.

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In 1919, Mohawk Golf & Country Club in Tiffin started out with a 9-hole course designed by Donald Ross. Today, the club’s 18-hole layout is the home course to the golf teams from both Tiffin University and Heidelberg University.

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The Woodlands and Lakeside nines were fashioned by Arthur Hills at Shaker Run Golf Club in 1979. Despite the addition of a third nine two decades later, it’s the original 18-hole course that remains the premier layout here.

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Owner Joe Salemi acquired the 200-acre Boulder Creek Golf Club property in Streetsboro at the end of the 1990s then he set about designing each and every hole of the course himself.

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Laid out on a rolling landscape to the southeast of Cleveland, the tree-lined fairways at Sugar Bush Golf Club comprise one of the region’s sportier layouts. It’s a lightly bunkered track, with water coming into play at three holes.

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Opened for business in 1995, the Championship layout at the Golf Club at Yankee Trace comprises the original Heritage and Legend nines at an exceptional public 27-hole golf facility which was designed by Gene Bates.

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Brian Huntley routed the course at Kennsington Golf Club around the Westford Lifestyle Community residential development, where tree-lined holes flirt with sparkling lakes and scenic ravines. Playing to a par of 71, the layout can be stretched to 7,050 yards.

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Located just across Muirfield Drive from Jack's flagship golf club, The Country Club at Muirfield Village completed a 5-year, phased course renovation in 2019, resulting in the upgrade of all the sand hazards (using Better Billy Bunker liners) and the installation of a new irrigation system.

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Coppertop Golf Club ( formerly known as Coppertop at Cherokee Hills) – which operated up until 1981 as Valley Forge Golf Club – measures only 6,269 yards from the back tees, with only two par fives on the scorecard, at the 9th and 15th holes.

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Host venue for the last ever PGA Championship played as a match play contest in 1957, the course at Miami Valley Golf Club is an original Donald Ross design dating back to the club’s formation in 1919.

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William Langford set out the 18 holes at Clovernook Country Club in the early 1920s and the layout has since been renovated by both William Diddel and Arthur Hills. It was also an LPGA tour stop from 1965 to 1968.

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Situated half way between Columbus and Cleveland, Black Diamond Golf Course is a daily fee facility that Barry Serafin laid out within a rather hilly property in 1999. There’s also on site lodging for golfers who want to stay and play.