Golf courses in New York

Only three states have more courses mapped in Yardage than New York. The 825 listed here are 5.5% of the whole catalog: 591 eighteen-hole and 234 nine-hole, spread across 490 towns, 333 of which have a single course. Rochester leads the city list with 12, Akron and Schenectady have 10 each, and Old Westbury on Long Island has 9.

New York’s public golf has a landlord most states lack. The state park system runs 31 courses, and the mapped ones include the five at Bethpage State Park, both at Saratoga Spa, Green Lakes, Montauk Downs, Sunken Meadow’s three nines and the courses at Robert Moses, Rockland Lake, James Baird, Chenango Valley, Beaver Island and Wellesley Island. The park courses inside the five boroughs are mapped as well, among them Van Cortlandt Park and Mosholu in the Bronx, Dyker Beach and Marine Park in Brooklyn, Kissena Park and Clearview in Queens, Silver Lake and South Shore on Staten Island.

Geography sets the season. Long Island and the lower Hudson play from March into December; the Finger Lakes and Western New York from April to November; the Adirondacks and the Catskills hold a shorter window either side of summer. Against its population the state sits below the national rate, 4.12 courses per 100,000 people against 4.38 nationally, 33rd of 50, one course for every 24,245 New Yorkers, which the Golf Course Census puts in context.

Cornell’s course in Ithaca, St. Lawrence University’s in Canton and the course at West Point are mapped for the college and academy crowd. If your next round is somewhere you have never played, start with our guide to playing a new golf course, and the national directory takes you to the other 49 states.

Most courses: Rochester (12), Akron (10), Schenectady (10), Old Westbury (9), Brockport (8).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (20,002,427 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

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