Philadelphia Cricket Club - St. Martins

At the club’s original Chestnut Hill campus, the St. Martins Course delivers a living-history walk on the same ground that hosted the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Opens. Today it plays nine holes, par 35, 2,617 yards, with hole names that echo its past (“Hartwell,” “The Ditches,” “Hill Hole,” “The Inn”). The opener still plays across Hartwell Lane as it has since 1895, while corridors on 1–3 and 7–9 preserve early-20th-century ground where Donald Ross was retained in 1914 to add length, insert strategic hazards, and contour greens. The course was later pared from 18 to nine after the club built its Flourtown course, with holes 4–6 rebuilt in 1963, and in 2013 Keith Foster and the agronomy team refreshed the presentation with open vistas, short-grass surrounds, and tidy, period-appropriate green pads. The result is a compact, walkable loop where angle and landing control—rather than forced water carries—define the scoring. Philadelphia Cricket Club spans two campuses and 45 holes. In Flourtown, Wissahickon (A.W. Tillinghast, 1922; renovated 2013) is a par 70 at 7,119 yards, and Militia Hill (Hurdzan/Fry, 2002) is par 72 at ~7,227 yards. Members also have access to extensive practice facilities and year-round programming across golf and racquets, but St. Martins remains the club’s most evocative link to its Open-era roots. Private membership; limited reciprocal access.