Pocono Manor Golf Course

Pocono Manor Golf Course occupies a high plateau in Monroe County, a few miles north of Interstate 80 and long associated with the former Inn at Pocono Manor. Known for decades as the East Course — a qualifier retired after the resort’s Fazio-designed West closed and most of its land was sold for the Kalahari resort development — it is public/daily-fee under current operations (Oliphant Golf Management), with memberships offered; the Inn itself remains closed following the November 1, 2019 fire, but golf resumed in 2020 and has since stabilized with seasonal play, a driving range, and a three-hole practice loop beside it. As rated today the course is par 72 at 6,063 yards from the Blue tees (68.6/115), with White, Green and Red sets at 5,804, 4,867 and 4,740 yards. The round unfolds over rolling uplands of thin-soiled pasture and second-growth woodland, with long views and a steady breeze that is more decisive than raw elevation: Ross’s surviving 1912 holes cluster near the clubhouse (today’s 1–6, 17 and 18), while Flynn’s ten — beginning with the famous 77-yard, straight-downhill par-3 7th — cross Route 314 to higher, more exposed ground before handing the round back. The club leans into its century-old identity, “touched by Donald Ross and William Flynn,” markets outings and open play rather than a restricted-membership model, and keeps the ties to hometown Masters champion Art Wall, Jr. — whose son Greg has led the golf shop since 1984 — central to how the course presents itself today.