Aronimink Among Nation's 100 Best Courses: Golf Digest

NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA — With temperatures getting warmer in the Philadelphia region, many golfers are hitting the links for a few rounds. And lucky for Philadelphia-area golfers, Golf Digester says a course in the region is among the nation's best.

Golf Magazine recently released its list of the 100 best golf courses in each region of the United States.

Aronimink Golf Club was listed at No. 94 among the 100 best courses in the nation.

Below are Golf Digest panelist comments on the Newtown Square club:

Breathtaking golf experience in my opinion. Might be the best conditioning I've encountered as a panelist. I couldn't believe how firm and fast the fairways played, and the greens were in amazing shape. And the aesthetics around the course seemed to fit perfectly into the setting.

This is a true championship test with distance necessary to put yourself in decent spots to attack these well-designed greens. If you're in the proper spot to hit your approach, you're going to struggle to make par.

Loved how Ross sought the highest point in the course and worked his way down, then building a drainage system that effectively filters everything down to the ponds and streams.

See Golf Digest's full assessment of the club here.

The course was designed by Donald Ross in 1929.

Below are the top 10 courses in the country:

1. Pine Valley — Pine Valley, New Jersey (George Crump/H.S. Colt, 1918)
2. Augusta National — Augusta, Georgia (Alister MacKenzie/Bobby Jones, 1933)
3. Cyprus Point — Virginia Beach, Virginia (Alister MacKenzie/Robert Hunter, 1929)
4. Shinnecock Hills — Southampton, New Y (Howard Toomey/William Flynn, 1931)
5. Oakmont — Oakmont, Pa. (Henry Fownes, 1903)
6. Merion — Ardmore, Pa. (Hugh Wilson, 1912)
7. National Golf Links of America — Southampton, N.Y. (C.B. Macdonald, 1911)
8. Pebble Beach — Pebble Beach, California (Jack Neville/Douglas Grant, 1919)
9. Fishers Island — Fishers Island, N.Y. (Seth Raynor, 1926)
10. Sand Hills — Mullen, Nebraska (Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw, 1995)

See the full list online here.