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Locust Valley, NY
Piping Rock Club
Piping Rock began in 1911 as a social and equestrian club. Charles Blair Macdonald became its first golf chairman, bringing course design into a property already organized around other outdoor sports.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 71
- Original architect
- C.B. Macdonald
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
Golf around a sporting club
The polo ground remained central to the golf routing and later became the practice range. That inherited open space helps explain the course’s unusual arrangement around the middle of the property.
In the archive
Sources and editorial notes2 references
Sources for this story
- Piping Rock Club Fried Egg Golf / Matt Rouches
Main historical narrative and course descriptions; stale future-event language excluded.
Consulted 2026-09-21