Golf courses in Pennsylvania

Organized golf in Pennsylvania goes back to the 1890s. The Golf Association of Philadelphia dates to 1897 and calls itself the oldest state or regional golf association in the country, and the game spread from the Philadelphia Main Line and Pittsburgh’s river valleys into the mill towns and farm counties between. Today 721 courses in Pennsylvania are mapped in Yardage, 4.81% of the national catalog and the sixth-largest state count.

The city list shows two Pennsylvanias. Pittsburgh and Beaver Falls have 11 mapped courses each, the latter because Black Hawk’s two eighteens and Rolling Acres’ three nines, counted singly and in combination, sit in one Beaver County postal town. Philadelphia has 10, and its suburbs Ambler and Huntingdon Valley 9 apiece. Across the whole state 395 towns appear in the directory and 259 of them have a single course.

Eighteen-hole courses number 558 and nine-holers 163, a 22.6% nine-hole share. Divide by population and Pennsylvania comes out 17th: 5.52 courses per 100,000 people, one for every 18,113 residents, above the national 4.38 in the Golf Course Census. Public golf includes Penn State’s Blue and White courses in State College and Allentown’s municipal course, both mapped. The season runs April through November in the southeast and a few weeks shorter in the Poconos, the Laurel Highlands and the northern tier.

Playing a course for the first time, in a state with 395 towns’ worth of them, goes better after our guide to a new course. Every other state’s directory hangs off the national directory.

Most courses: Beaver Falls (11), Pittsburgh (11), Philadelphia (10), Ambler (9), Huntingdon Valley (9).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (13,059,432 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

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