Aronimink Golf Club Review

Ross laid this out in 1928 on gently moving farmland west of Philadelphia, and it spent the century since being tidied up and then untidied again. Ron Prichard began the recovery in 2003 and Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner finished it in 2018, pushing the greens back to their original edges, widening the fairways and returning the bunkers to the shapes Ross drew.

What came out is a proper Ross examination: crowned greens that fall away at the sides, approach shots played from sloping lies, and almost no water to look at. The long par three seventeenth and the uphill par four home to the clubhouse are the holes people remember. The PGA of America brought the championship here in May 2026 and stretched the fifteenth to 551 yards, the longest par four ever used in a major, which is a strange thing to do to a Ross course but did produce a serious test in cold wind.

Aaron Rai won at nine under, the first Englishman to take the Wanamaker since 1919. Conditioning matches any private club in the northeast. Set against that, this is a very good course rather than a great one, the setting is pleasant suburban parkland with nothing to look at past the trees, and play is limited to members and their guests.