Youngstown Country Club

Youngstown Country Club sits just north of downtown Youngstown in Liberty Township, on the rolling former Holland Farm that the club occupied permanently in 1909. The golf course today is a private, member-owned, 18-hole parkland layout with a practice range and short-game/putting facilities adjacent to the clubhouse. The grounds include tennis courts, swimming, platform tennis, and skeet & trap, but the course remains the focal point. From the back tees the course plays to a par of 71 and roughly 6,663 yards, over gently undulating terrain cut by a meandering creek that influences several holes. Tree-lined corridors frame most drives, but the chief test is on and around the greens—compact targets with subtle movement and flanking bunkers that reflect the club’s interwar remodeling under Donald Ross. Although the routing traces to Walter J. Travis’s early work for the club at this site, the putting surfaces and much of the approach interest derive from Ross’s subsequent reconstruction. The club hosts member and regional competitions, and its historic profile is underscored by a 1925 Western Open and a recent listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors today encounter a traditional private-club experience and a course whose scale and rhythm remain consistent with its 1920s character, even after periodic updates.