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    Aronimink Golf Club

    Aronimink Golf Club

    3600 Saint Davids Rd Ste 2

    Newtown Square, PA 19073-1799

    United States

    Overview

    Aronimink is an object lesson in architectural evolution. After Donald Ross completed his design in 1928, he proclaimed, “I intended to make this my masterpiece.” That didn’t keep club members from bringing in William Gordon in the 1950s to eliminate out-of-play fairway bunkers and move other bunkers closer to greens. The course was later revamped by Dick Wilson, George Fazio and Robert Trent Jones. In the 1990s and into the 2000s, Ron Prichard, one of the profession’s original restoration specialists, began returning Aronimink back to Ross’ conception based on the architect’s drawings and field diagrams. But there was always a discrepancy between what Ross drew in plans and what was actually built in 1928. A more recent renovation by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, who live nearby, has put the course’s architecture more in line with what aerial photographs depict of the early design, particularly the bunkering that might have been imagined as larger in scale but built in smaller, more scatter-shot formations.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7267
    Slope 138
    Facility Type Private
    Designer Donald J. Ross, ASGCA/(R) Gil Hanse

    Awards

    100 Greatest
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    100 Greatest: Ranked 1966-1998, 2001-2006, 2009-2026.
    Highest ranking: 49th, 1987-1988.
    Previous ranking: 95th.
    2025-'26 ranking: 100th.

    Best in State: Ranked Top 5 in Pennsylvania since 1985.
    2025-'26 ranking (and previous): 3rd.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.5

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.5593
    Character
    7.736
    Challenge
    7.6902
    Layout Variety
    7.4344
    Fun
    7.4441
    Aesthetics
    7.5511
    Conditioning
    7.7285

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