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Pro Shop: 914-764-5771

Built: 2008  
Architect: Pete Dye
Website: www.poundridgegolf.com

Description: Legendary golf course architect Pete Dye’s first design project in New York is a spellbinding layout that winds its way through hardwood forest and opens to rolling meadows.  With 14,000 feet of rock walls surrounding trees, wetlands and water hazards, the course offers different shot-making opportunities on all 18 holes that will satisfy every avid golfer.

The short, downhill par-4 10th doesn't give you much room to miss off the tee. (photo courtesy of poundridgegolf.com)

Wtih a ample amount of mounding -- made by the massive quanity of rock that had to be blasted out of the ground -- the land itself is quite dramatic.  There are a lot of forced carries, depending on what teeing area you use, and that can lead to a lot of lost balls if one isn’t careful (or a long-drive champ).  There is a definite emphasis on accuracy, as all the different angles Dye sets up through the use of mounding, hazards and trees, makes course management a necessity to break 100 from the back tees, even for the most skilled golfer.

There are also some very interesting elevation changes, which contribute to the four great par-3’s on the 176-acre woodland property.  To match those four par-3’s are four par-5’s, equally as stunning in their appearance as their risk-reward versatility.

Reader Comments: An absolutely stunning round of golf; worth every penny ... Way too hard, from any teeing area ... The most enjoyable Pete Dye torture I've ever experience ... What a course! The setting is magical.