Lancaster Golf Club

On the southwest edge of Lancaster, Ohio, the former Lancaster Country Club—now Lancaster Golf Club—occupies a compact, low-rolling site framed by wooded stream corridors and neighborhood streets on Country Club Road SW. The facility operates today as a public daily-fee course with optional passholder programs. Players find two practice ranges(an irons-only public range and a passholder-only full-length range with a short-game area), along with a practice green and a clubhouse that shares space with a local restaurant and event venue. The 18-hole course plays par 72 at a posted 6,739 yards from the back tees, with multiple forward options; the walk is straightforward, and the routing flows away from and back to the clubhouse without a formal turn. Lancaster’s identity rests on two different nines: a back nine credited to Donald Ross through a 1926 redesign of the original 1909 course, and a front nine by Ohio architect Jack Kidwell added in 1961. The back nine features several strongly sloped greens and an unusual par-3 finishing hole that tests long-iron or hybrid control, while the Kidwell side supplies length and a broader fairway presentation. In recent years the course has added school and amateur events and hosted district competitions, reflecting its community-golf orientation under public ownership.