Best golf courses near Medina, OH

Westfield Country Club recently conducted back-to-back renovations on its South Course, followed by the North Course. Both were substantial transformations that included new holes and alternative routings, but while the South retained a more traditional parkland presentation, the North was radically changed from a cousin to the South into a prairie-style course infused with pot bunkers, fescue roughs and other Scottish-themed elements, though the playing surfaces are bluegrass. While less epic in scale and ambition, the new North Course recalls elements of the work Mike Hurdzan did at The Paintbrush (formerly Devil’s Paintbrush) in Ontario in the early 1990s with former partner Dana Fry. This time around, he had a different partner—his son Chris.

In 2018, architect Mike Hurdzan and son Chris were given a huge, multi-year commission to remodel all 36 holes at Westfield Country Club, originally built in the 1970s by Geoffrey Cornish. They began with the South Course, a pleasant parkland design that flows to and fro through chains of ponds and small clusters of hardwoods. Compared to the North course that was transformed into a mostly treeless, meadow-style design, the work on the South was more to open up the views across the property and polish the architecture, though significant restructuring was done on the second nine by moving greens and breaking up holes. The North barely outpointed the South in the Ohio ranking.