WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Guru’s Rating: 7.5 HUDSON HILLS 4-1-1 Course Website 400 Croton Dam Rd. Ossining, NY ViewMap » Phone: (914)864-3000 Non-Resident Weekend Rate (with cart): $115 Driving Range? No Ossining may best be known as the home of Don and Betty Draper, when their facade of a marriage was in full effect. If Don was a golfer, he likely would have entertained [...]

Guru’s Rating: 9.1 POUND RIDGE 4-1-1 Course Website 18 High Ridge Rd., Pound Ridge, NY ViewMap » Phone: (914) 764-5771 Non-Resident Weekend Rate (with cart): $195 Driving Range? Yes The hottest day of the year was less than ideal to experience a Pete Dye designed golf course for the first time. I had heard the stories about Pound Ridge; the [...]

Guru’s Rating: 5.2 SAXON WOODS 4-1-1 Course Website 315 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale, NY ViewMap » Phone: (914) 231-3461 Non-Resident Weekend Rate (with cart): $63 Driving Range? Yes I’m not gonna go all Sarah McLachlan on you, but Saxon Woods means a lot to me. I grew up just five minutes from the course, spending my childhood summers swimming in the [...]

Guru’s Rating: 2.4 DUNWOODIE 4-1-1 Course Website 1 Wasylenko Ln Yonkers, NY ViewMap » Phone: (914) 231-3490 Non-Resident Weekend Rate (with cart): $63 Driving Range? Yes Just a 20-30 minute drive from the Upper West Side, Dunwoodie is tantalizingly convenient to anyone who lives in Manhattan.  Unfortunately, that’s about all it has going for it. A recent round at Dunwoodie found [...]

Guru’s Rating: 4.7 MAPLE MOOR 4-1-1 Course Website 1128 North Street White Plains, NY ViewMap » Phone: (914) 995-9200 Non-Resident Weekend Rate (with cart): $63 Driving Range? No No longer managed by the talented folks at Billy Casper Golf, Maple Moor has faded back to the lower eschelon of Westchester County public courses.  You’ll find browned out fairways, dirt-filled bunkers, [...]

Guru’s Rating: 3.9 SPRAIN LAKE 4-1-1 Course Website 290 East Grassy Sprain Road Yonkers, NY ViewMap » Phone: (914) 231-3481 Non-Resident Weekend Rate (with cart): $63 Driving Range? Yes (wiffle balls) Sprain Lake gets a slight nod over its Yonkers neighbor, Dunwoodie, because it actually surpasses 6,000 yards from the tips (barely, at 6110).  Otherwise, problems abound.  Ill-timed sprinklers on greens [...]