Aronimink Golf Club
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Phenomenal golf course and just a wonderful facility all around. The course is pretty straightforward with average size greens. Some have much more undulation than others. Assuming you will have caddies, be sure to have a carry bag and strip it down to the bare minimum needs. Otherwise, your caddy will strip it down for you and you’ll be hauling junk back to your car anyway!
The immediate area is residential, but Radnor and Wayne are minutes away and have really great, walkable main streets with plenty of good restaurants from which to choose. Happy golfing!
It’s a really great golf experience. Merion gets all the accolades, deservedly so, but Aronomink is my favorite Philly course.
You get ready to tee off number 1 and look out and say, pretty straightforward, shorter par 4. Then you hit a decent drive, walk out to your ball and still have a long, uphill shot. Just play the yardage and maybe 1/2 club more or you’ll be short all day! Play well.
I'm wondering...is the course policy caddies only or do they offer carts? The outing is to honor an 80 year old and plenty of the players are 70+, 80+, including my father-in-law who I'm playing with. He gets around pretty well but he's not walking 18 on a hilly track.
It’s listed as “walking only”, as is Merion, Cricket Club, Applebrook and a couple of others. Generally, a course will make accommodations for players with physical limitations (may need some “proof”). However, if you get a cart, expect to have a forecaddy or two, or possibly caddies to carry the bags and only the accommodated player may ride in a cart. You should do a little investigation. Hope it works out. It’s a great course. Playing with a caddy can be the best golf experience you’ll have. Believe me, those caddies have seen it all and will not be critical. There is a limit to how old you can be and still walk a challeging, hilly golf course.
I am on the Grounds Committee at my local club. I have come to realize that Golf Architects, Grounds Supers, USGA, etc., dislike trees. They want to open vistas and sight lines, improve air flow, sun exposure and water retention for grasses, and reduce the fall maintenance costs with leaf removal, pruning, cleanups after wind storms, etc. Almost every article I read about a major course renovation mentions the removal of xxxxx trees. However, members love trees!
If the weather cooperates, make sure you have a beverage or two on the outside patio adjacent to the course. A great spot to view the course and enjoy a cocktail, if you are so inclined....
I really like the views of the open course. This winter at Penn State they removed about 400 trees. I really like the look. The courses will play a little easier but they will look better once cleaned up well.
Removed (killed) 400 trees for a lousy golf course? You call that “cleaning up”?
This all true enough. One of the things to consider is that the courses went through a period of tree planting back in the 60s and 70s so they were overgrown. So removing them is bringing the course back to its original design. Which does save a lot of money in maintenance costs.
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