Wanango Golf Club

Wanango Golf Club sits on the hillside above the Allegheny River between Oil City and Franklin, with long views over the Oil Creek valley. The club operates today with public access alongside membership programs; green-fee and cart rates, posted on the club’s “Your Golf Visit” page, indicate regular outside play and league activity. Visitors find an 18-hole layout that the club presents as a Tillinghast-redesigned course measuring roughly 6,124 yards from the longest everyday markers, playing to a posted par of 72 on that page (the current printed scorecard shows 6,246 yards at par 71). The club emphasizes “small, tight greens” and “bombshell type” sand bunkers bordered by mature hardwoods—features that define the day-to-day shotmaking. Facilities include a pro shop and on-site dining and events spaces; the course hosts outings and seasonal leagues. The round moves across rolling ground with several elevation changes and corridors shaped historically by the oil-field’s former surface equipment, a setting alluded to in the club’s own narrative of its expansion and redesign. Overall, Wanango presents today as a compact, classic-era course with modest yardage, angular greens targets, and traditional hazards that reward cleanly flighted approaches more than raw length.