Stonewall Golf Links (North)
Architect: Tom Doak Year: 2003 375 Bulltown Rd, Elverson, PA 19520 Phone: (610) 286-3030 Course Access: Private https://www.stonewalllinks.com/ |
Stonewall Golf Links
A private golf partnership located in northwest Chester County Pennsylvania, Stonewall was conceived over 26 years ago by a group of golf enthusiasts who longed for golf in its purest form - without tee times or restrictions; where players are encouraged to walk the course.
Rather than another good country club, Stonewall was conceived as a golf club with excellent courses available for Partners whenever they wanted to play; challenging for the superior player while manageable for the average player. What Stonewall is not, is perhaps just as important as what it is. The vision was simple. A quiet, unpretentious, walking course in the countryside where one wouldn't have to worry about a full tee sheet or encroaching development.
The facilities at Stonewall now include two eighteen hole championship golf courses, each with practice facilities, two golf houses with overnight accommodations, a golf shop and restaurant facilities.
The Old Course, with more demanding shot values and an emphasis on driving accuracy and distance, complements the North Course, which offers more generous landing areas, but requires a more exacting short game. The Old Course is a walking only golf course. The North Course, while encouraging the use of caddies, allows golf carts.
Stonewall's Old Course has been ranked among Golf Magazine's top one hundred golf courses in the United States, while the North Course was named one of the top ten best new courses in the country by "The Golfer" magazine. Both have been widely accepted by local and national golf communities. The Old Course has hosted a number of prestigious events since its opening in July 1993 including the Pennsylvania Open, the Philadelphia Amateur and the Philadelphia Open. The North Course, opened August 2003, has hosted the Mary Farnum Cup for the WGAP and the Jack Connelly Invitational in 2005.
The Old and North courses will together host the 2016 USGA Mid-Amateur Championship.
A truly unique golf experience set among a very private collection of rolling hills and farmlands, with breathtaking vistas of the surrounding area, Stonewall confidently stands among the most prestigious golf venues anywhere.
Rather than another good country club, Stonewall was conceived as a golf club with excellent courses available for Partners whenever they wanted to play; challenging for the superior player while manageable for the average player. What Stonewall is not, is perhaps just as important as what it is. The vision was simple. A quiet, unpretentious, walking course in the countryside where one wouldn't have to worry about a full tee sheet or encroaching development.
The facilities at Stonewall now include two eighteen hole championship golf courses, each with practice facilities, two golf houses with overnight accommodations, a golf shop and restaurant facilities.
The Old Course, with more demanding shot values and an emphasis on driving accuracy and distance, complements the North Course, which offers more generous landing areas, but requires a more exacting short game. The Old Course is a walking only golf course. The North Course, while encouraging the use of caddies, allows golf carts.
Stonewall's Old Course has been ranked among Golf Magazine's top one hundred golf courses in the United States, while the North Course was named one of the top ten best new courses in the country by "The Golfer" magazine. Both have been widely accepted by local and national golf communities. The Old Course has hosted a number of prestigious events since its opening in July 1993 including the Pennsylvania Open, the Philadelphia Amateur and the Philadelphia Open. The North Course, opened August 2003, has hosted the Mary Farnum Cup for the WGAP and the Jack Connelly Invitational in 2005.
The Old and North courses will together host the 2016 USGA Mid-Amateur Championship.
A truly unique golf experience set among a very private collection of rolling hills and farmlands, with breathtaking vistas of the surrounding area, Stonewall confidently stands among the most prestigious golf venues anywhere.
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COURSE REVIEW BY: CHRIS MAVROS, GOLFADELPHIA
The newer course at Stonewall is known as the North Course, also built by Tom Doak and his talented crew, which included Brian Schneider, Brian Slawnik, Kye Goalby, Kyle Franz, Don Placek, Eric Iverson and Don Proctor. That’s quite the line up. When the Old course was completed, Doak agreed to return and build the North, which he did ten years later in 2003. The yin and yang between the North and Old courses at Stonewall is striking and gives the membership a nice range of golf styles. The North is quirkier with lots of below ground shaping cut into the hillsides, giving it a much peppier character than the Old, which is more polished, grand scaled and flowing. Here, the course flaunts bold angles, juts abruptly in various directions and gets flat out turbulent around the greens. It wants inventiveness from you and above all, seems to strongly suggest the golfer not take himself so seriously. Golf is a game that will never be conquered, so trying shots never before tried, attacking a hole several different ways, having shots you never needed to try before in the first place because of the design, while flipping off the consequences of it all is where a lot of the joy of the game resides. The North is a celebration of that, or at least it is to me...... Click Here To Read Hole By Hole