Aronimink Golf Club

Newtown Square, PA Private

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’s 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
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Ranking history:

100 Greatest: Ranked 1966-1998, 2001-2006, 2009-2024.
2023-'24 Ranking: 95th.
Previous ranking: 94th.
Highest Ranking: 49th, 1987-1988.

Best in State: Ranked Top 5 in Pennsylvania since 1985.
Current Ranking: 3rd.

Panelists

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

4.5

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.5597
Character
7.8078
Challenge
7.7147
Layout Variety
7.4077
Fun
7.4309
Aesthetics
7.5675
Conditioning
7.731

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