Sound as a Pound

Pound Ridge Golf Club is months away from forever changing the face of the public course

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When pound ridge golf club opens it doors this summer duffers all around the world will have reason to rejoice. Not only will the club’s 172 acre course, a tapestry of verdant hardwoods and picturesque wetlands, be one of the finest public layouts in the country; it will also bear the distinction of being the first course in New York to be designed by the legendary Pete Dye. While it’s not as if Mr. Dye needs an introduction, it’s probably worth pointing out that he has designed over 130 national and 17 international courses, including stand-outs such as TPC Sawgrass and Kiawah Island. They don’t call him the father of modern golf course architecture for nothing. And it certainly appears that the father of the fairway has brought his full skill-set to bear at Pound Ridge. In the words of the master craftsman himself, Pound Ridge’s 16th hole is, “one of the most visually stunning greens complexes that I’ve seen out of the 378 golf holes I’ve done.” Now that’s an endorsement that’s got to pique the interest of even the most ardent skeptic.

Pound Ridge Golf Course Hole 15Located in Westchester County, about 45 minutes north of the Big Apple, the town of Pound Ridge feels more like a turn of the century New England Hamlet than anything else. A bit whimsical, you say? Well, a bit of nostalgia isn’t a bad thing, especially if the course in question is steeped in so much of America’s history. The town of Pound Ridge was, after all, the site of a pitched battle between British Redcoats and a band of Continental soldiers in July of 1779 that served to strengthen the resolve of America’s fledgling armed forces. And after donating its pound of flesh in America’s struggle for independence, Pound Ridge served as a regional center of basket weaving until the Civil War.