Echo Lake Country Club

Echo Lake Country Club occupies a bluff-top site above Echo Lake Park in Westfield, roughly an hour from New York City. Today it is a private, family-focused club with an 18-hole course, swimming pool, paddle tennis courts, and a recently renovated clubhouse that looks out across the lake and, on clear days, toward the Manhattan skyline. The club presents multiple teeing options headed by a back “Championship” set that plays a little over 7,100 yards; member sets down the ladder offer substantial variety. In day-to-day presentation the course emphasizes firm, fast greens and significant elevation changes, especially on the opening stretch that drops from the clubhouse plateau into lower ground before climbing back. Practice facilities include a range laid out on property acquired in the 1920s and formalized in 1928. The club periodically hosts state and national events; notable recent assignments include the 2018 NJSGA Amateur and the stroke-play portion of the 2025 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball in partnership with Plainfield Country Club. Although Echo Lake is widely identified with Donald Ross, the course as played today is a composite: nine holes trace to Ross’s 1913 commission, while other holes were re-done by Robert (Bob) White in 1919 and Willard Wilkinson in 1928; a Rees Jones master plan completed in 2017 refined routing details and par on holes 1–4.