(POUND RIDGE, N.Y.) – Pound Ridge Golf Club – the nationally-ranked, Pete Dye-designed destination course 40 miles north of New York City – has been named to Rolex’s prestigious list of the “World’s Top 1000 Golf Courses,” available for purchase online at www.amazon.co.uk.
The only Pete Dye designed course in New York, and one of the highest-rated courses to open in 2008, Pound Ridge was one of only 362 U.S. courses included in the rankings. The 1,335-page compendium took three years to complete and includes public, private and resort courses from every country in the world.
“Rolex is one of the world’s most respected and recognized luxury brands, and a major sponsor of golf, globally,” says Pound Ridge owner Ken Wang. “We are honored that Pound Ridge is included in this thorough and compelling compilation that is sure to become a travel companion for avid golfers everywhere.”
Courses were evaluated by a team of 200 “inspectors” who anonymously worked their way around the world, completing an in-depth questionnaire, adding comments of their own, and scoring each course on a set of criteria. According to the book’s Foreword:
“Our Editorial Committee has given each course a score, geared primarily to the excellence of the site, the course architecture involved, and of course maintenance and condition. After considerable deliberation and verification, we took the entire 33,000 courses currently registered worldwide and ended up with those we consider to be the Top 1000.”
For more information about Pound Ridge Golf Club: visit www.poundridgegolf.com, call 914.764.5771 or email info@poundridgegolf.com.
About Pound Ridge Golf Club
Opened in 2008, Pound Ridge Golf Club is the only course in New York designed by the legendary Pete Dye. Located in Westchester County, it is less than an hour north of New York City and less than 15 minutes from Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut. One of the only high-end, public courses in the area, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a full bentgrass facility.
Crafted by Dye, his son Perry and long-time Dye construction manager/lead shaper Michael Langkau, Pound Ridge Golf Club is hewn from 172 acres of magnificent cliffs, streams and wooded hills. Dramatic rock formations and boulders were left onsite, creating one of the most visually stunning settings for golf in the U.S. More than 14,000-linear-feet of rock wall surrounds trees, wetlands and water hazards. These frame contoured fairways which wind through hardwood forests and fescue mounds leading to open meadows with picturesque green complexes.
Pound Ridge Golf Club plays to a par-72 and houses five sets of tees and measures 7,171 yards. It boasts a practice range, short game area and putting green. The property features some of the highest points in Westchester County, with a number of tee boxes offering expansive vistas of the surrounding country. Notable holes include the par-5, 13th – home to “Pete’s Rock,” a giant boulder that rests in the middle of the fairway – and the par-3 15th – dubbed “Headstone” – which is flanked on the right by a large rock outcropping that protrudes into the elongated, 9,000-square-foot putting surface.
Recent accolades for Pound Ridge Golf Club Include:
• “No. 1 New York City Area Golf Course, 2010” – AskMen.com
• “America’s Best New Courses, 2009” – Golf Digest
• “New Golf Development of the Year, 2009” – ABTA Golf
• “Top Ten You Can Play, No. 2, 2008” – GOLF Magazine
• “Best New Courses, 2008” – LINKS Magazine
• “America’s Best New Courses, 2008” – Golfweek
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