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Apart from Augusta National, Oakmont Country Club has hosted more major Championships than any other course in the U.S. and it’s considered by many to be the toughest golf course in the world.

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When Merion Golf Club was founded in 1896, Philadelphians were more likely to play cricket than golf. They even sent touring cricket teams to England!

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The course in play today at Aronimink Golf Club opened in 1928 and Dornoch’s most famous son, Donald Ross, originally designed it. Gil Hanse restored the old classic ahead of the 2018 BMW Championship.

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In 2012, the Country Club of Scranton engaged Tom Marzolf to renovate its original old Walter Travis-designed course which is now the centrepiece at this 27-hole facility...

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The affluent Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel is home to one of Seth Raynor’s best, yet least celebrated designs... Fox Chapel Golf Club.

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A.W. Tillinghast crafted the Flourtown golf course at The Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1922. In the new millennium, the layout was renamed Wissahickon, after the creek which borders the property.

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The original Meadowcreek and Dogwood nines (known as the Old or Flynn course) combine to form the foremost 18-hole combination here at Lancaster Country Club...

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Huntingdon Valley Country Club was fashioned in the 1920s as a 27-hole layout by William S. Flynn and it remains authentic to his original design principles.

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Along the Little Lehigh Creek lies the private Lehigh Country Club which celebrated its centenary in 2008.

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Philadelphia Country Club is one of the oldest in the country, formed by John C. Bullit in 1890. He acquired a 60-acre property on which a polo field was laid out (hence the horse head club emblem)...

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A. W. Tillinghast is said to have worked on more than 250 courses and he designed around a dozen of these in his home state of Pennsylvania, one of which was Sunnehanna Country Club.

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Laid out by Herbert Strong in 1921, the Saucon Valley Country Club’s Old course has hosted numerous national competitions, including the US Amateur (1951), two US Senior Opens and the 2009 US Women’s Open.

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It’s easy to see why it's a struggle to score well at Rolling Green Golf Club when you examine the undulating landscape and the way the greens are designed to repel all but the most accurate approach shots...

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The classic old William Flynn layout at Manufacturers’ Golf & Country Club lies in a valley where the Sandy Run Creek is brought into play at several of the holes.

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The 1975 Ryder Cup put Laurel Valley Golf Club on the map and team USA won comfortably 21-11. The winning margin would have been greater had England’s Brian Barnes not upset Jack's applecart.

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One of three 18-hole layouts at Saucon Valley Country Club, the Weyhill course was set around an old abandoned quarry by William and David Gordon in the mid-1960s.

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Founded in 1916, Gulph Mills Golf Club had an 18-hole layout in play three years later, once Donald Ross had built the course for the membership. Unusually, the modern day course retains a short set of par five holes.

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Local architect Gil Hanse built the Applebrook Golf Club course in 2001 and the construction of small greens and jagged bunkers imbue the layout with classic, Golden Age styling.

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Featuring a very fine trio of “Redan,” “Eden” and “Alps” replica holes, the golf course at Longue Vue Club pays more than mere lip service to the origins of the game.

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Overshadowed by the Old course’s USGA competition hosting capabilities at Saucon Valley Country Club, the Grace is nevertheless a very strong understudy at an outstanding 54-hole golf complex.

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Tom Doak’s light touch in routing the Old course at Stonewall through a rather undulating landscape is very easy on the eye...

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Venue for the PGA Championship in 1937, the course at Pittsburgh Field Club is a rather hilly and much-modified Alex Findlay design from 1915.

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Rees Jones was responsible for setting out the course at Huntsville Golf Club over rolling terrain within a massive 470-acre site in the early 1990s.

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First set out by Tom Bendelow on a 150-acre site in 1902, the old course at Allegheny Country Club was subsequently redesigned by Donald Ross in 1923 and more recently renovated by Ed Seay and then restored by Gil Hanse.

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Donald Ross designed the original 9-hole course for the Kahkwa Club in 1915, returning a decade later to add another nine. The club hosted the US Women’s Open Championship in 1971...

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The Mystic Rock course is one of two 18-hole layouts at the Nemacolin Resort, named after Chief Nemacolin, an 18th century Delaware Indian. It’s a tough track that Pete Dye crafted in the mid 1990s.

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Notching up half a century of golfing operation in 2014, the course at Moselem Springs Golf Club is a solid George Fazio track that’s renowned locally for its fine set of par three holes.

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Set out within a secluded 311-acre property to the north of Philadelphia, the course at Union League - Liberty Hill bears the mightily impressive architectural stamp of Gary Player.

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Until Brian Silva added nine holes to the layout in 1997, Donald Ross’s course at Rolling Rock Club had, for almost eighty years, been regarded as the finest 9-hole track in the country.

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The course at the Bedford Springs Hotel dates back to 1895. Altered on separate occasions by A.W. Tillinghast and Donald Ross, it was renovated by Ron Forse in 2007.