the club at golden valley - renovation

Golden Valley Country Club opened in 1915 as a 9 hole layout crafted by Thomas Bendelow. In 1924, the Club hired A.W. Tillinghast to redesign and expand the course to 18-holes. The course has remained largely unchanged for nearly 100 years.

In 2019, the Club changed the name and underwent a major renovation directed at modernizing the course and reducing on-going maintenance. We reconstructed and regrassed all 19 greens with modern bentgrass, added forward tees, reduced the amount of cart paths, reconstructed bunkers and reinstated a number of bunkers that had been removed during the depression in the 1930s to reduce maintenance. We also removed a hundreds of trees and regrassed fairways to restore the original fairway corridors and strategic angles.

Thank you to Tillinghast historian Philip Young and golf writer Bradley Klein who assisted us to ensure that we maintained Tillinghast’s original vision and design intent. At the greens, we softened the slopes and reinstated lost corners to restore lost square footage and lost pin positions.