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 Phoenixville Country Club, Phoenixville PA 19460


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Best 9 Hole Golf Courses In The World
From … The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses

One Of The Best 9 Hole Golf Courses In The World

By: Tom Doak, Golf Course Historian and Architect


  1. Royal Worlington & Newmarket - Great Britain
  2. Whitinsville - Massachusetts, USA
  3. The Dunes - Michigan, USA
  4. Reigate Heath – Great Britain
  5. Wawashkamo – Michigan, USA
  6. Phoenixville CC – Pennsylvania, USA
  7. Uplands – Canada
  8. Culver Military Academy – Indiana, USA
  9. Millbrook – Connecticut, USA
  10. Musselburgh - Scotland


Comments about Phoenixville Country Club from Tom Doak


 Designed by Hugh Wilson (designer of Merion CC) in 1913 – This course is noteworthy because it’s one of only three remaining Hugh Wilson designs. There are some steep gradients to be negotiated, with a deep ravine behind the clubhouse to be crossed from the 1st, 4th, and 8th tees, and containing the 9th green. The 3,500 square feet greens are sharply canted, leaving no substitute for pin-point accuracy on the approaches. Most of the bunkering is basic but Merion pro Bill Kittleman has added some remarkable fairway bunkers at the 5th and 8th holes, restoring the original Hugh Wilson flair.

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The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses (Hardcover) by Tom Doak (Author) August 6, 2007

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Editorial Review

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One of the better young contemporary course designers and a contributing editor to Golf Magazine, Tom Doak has assembled a brash, coffee-table volume of observations and analyses that'll have golfers salivating and pulling their hair out at the same time (when they're not debating his findings over refreshments at the 19th hole). Not only does Doak rate and review hundreds of courses throughout the U.S.--by region and state--and around the world, he offers a "Gourmet Guide" to the 31 layouts he'd personally like to play with friends: Anyone not up for the likes of Pine Valley, Merion, St. Andrews, Riviera, and Ballybunion?

Most fun, though, is the "Gazeteer" Doak concludes with. It offers list after list of roll calls like the most beautiful clubhouses, best walks, courses worth groveling to play, courses most fun to play, hardest courses, longest courses, best opening holes, best finishing holes, and unusual hazards (like the goats at Lahinch, the wild horses at Pennard, and the railway at Prestwick). If The Confidential Guide does not exactly qualify as sacred text, it's certainly one of golf's more deliciously profane ones.


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