Aronimink Golf Club

Donald Ross's 1928 course in Newtown Square, west of Philadelphia, restored by Ron Prichard and Gil Hanse. Host of the 1962 and 2026 PGA Championships.

Aronimink traces its history to 1896, when a group of cricketers laid out a few holes in southwest Philadelphia. The club moved twice before buying 300 acres in Newtown Square in 1926 and hiring Donald Ross. His course opened on Memorial Day 1928 next to a Tudor clubhouse. Ross's original plan had more than 190 bunkers, and he reportedly set out to make it his masterpiece.

Starting in the 1950s, a string of architects removed and simplified much of that bunkering. Ron Prichard restored the course from Ross's plans in 2003. After 1929 aerial photos turned up, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner went further in 2018, recovering about 30,000 square feet of green and returning the bunker count to over 100. Ross's crowned, sloping greens are the main defense, and the ridge-and-valley ground rarely gives a level lie.

Aronimink has hosted the 1962 PGA Championship, won by Gary Player, plus the 1977 U.S. Amateur, the 2018 BMW Championship and the 2020 KPMG Women's PGA. It is the only course to have staged the PGA of America's three rotating majors, including the 2003 Senior PGA. The PGA Championship returned in May 2026, with the course set at 7,394 yards and par 70.

Holes to know

8

Par 3 · 242 yd

A long downhill par 3 to a narrow green, one of the hardest one-shotters on the course; set at 242 yards for the 2026 PGA.

10

Par 4 · 472 yd

Begins the back nine from an elevated tee, with a fairway tilted right to left and water short-left of the green.

17

Par 3 · 229 yd

A par 3 played across a lake, set at 229 yards for the 2026 PGA Championship.

18

Par 4 · 490 yd

An uphill par-4 finish back to the Tudor clubhouse.

Championships

• PGA Championship 1962, 2026
• U.S. Amateur 1977
• U.S. Junior Amateur 1997
• Senior PGA Championship 2003
• AT&T National (PGA Tour) 2010, 2011
• BMW Championship 2018
• KPMG Women's PGA Championship 2020

Design history

• 1950s–70s: changes by William Gordon, Dick Wilson, George Fazio and Robert Trent Jones simplified Ross's bunkering
• 2003: Ron Prichard restoration from Ross's drawings
• 2018: Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner restoration guided by 1929 photographs, recovering about 30,000 sq ft of greens