Oak Hill Country Club- Considered One of the World's Celebrated Golf Clubs

Among the list of top golf courses anywhere in the world holds the 2013 PGA Championship that's the Oak Hill Country Golf Club in Rochester, NY.  This acclaimed course was in fact only recently ranked as number 11 of the top 100 golf courses in America by Golf Digest.  It is the one club anywhere for having put on the Ryder Cup, the PGA Championship, the US Senior Open, the Senior PGA Championship, and the US Amateur Championship and also the US Open 3 times. This all transpired inside of a 24 year period.

There really are two golf courses making up the club, and the competitions will be contested on the East Golf course designed by the world-famous designer Donald Ross.  Oak Hill Country Club was established in its final site in 1926, and at that time quite a lot of the land was barren with very few trees.  Dr. John R Williams added significantly to the wonderful Ross design by planting a huge number of evergreen, maple plus elm trees.  But mostly he planted oaks, and the most important aspect of this course will be the great number of trees.  These trees aren't as interfering like some other of the great northern courses including Winged Foot, however will present a problem to the misplaced golf shots.

It's one reason why professional golfer Ernie Els has said, "It is the best, fairest and toughest championship golf course I've ever played in all my years as a tour professional."  Like practically all great golf courses, Oak Hill has had to be revamped throughout the years to bring it up with the norms of up to date golf equipment.  Robert Trent Jones during the 1950s revamped almost every hole, and one more major restoration came in the late 1970s with Tom and George Fazio.

Despite the fact that the 18th hole, a 460 yard par 4 is going to be remarkable the way it will make its way to the magnificent, historic clubhouse, the hallmark hole is the par 5 thirteenth.  Playing nearly 600 yards for those pros, it is impressive in its own right yet epitomizes the whole golf course.  The golf hole winds its way largely uphill, but a stream about 300 yards in front of the tee will prevent participants from utilizing a driver.  The extremely long following shot is going to make it unusual for anyone to find the par 5 with 2 golf shots, so nearly all will probably be utilizing a wedge to the green.  It's going to take an accurate approach golf shot to get birdie here, since the golf green is very quick from back to front.

The course has been private; therefore most people aren't going to have the chance to experience it.  But it really is an important part of major championship golf that we are going to have lots of chance to view this excellent old course.