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Westchester’s Golf Landscape Changes Yet AGAIN
The bulldozers are finished, and the grass is growing on the new Pelham CC golf course, site of one of the most extensive renovations in the county in the last 20 years. Not only were nearly half the holes on the course redesigned and rebuilt, nearly the entire course was rerouted to enhance the playing experience.
Planning for the project went into high gear in 2016, according to Greg Coleman, who co-heads the Golf and Greens Committee with Bruce Dunbar. “The first important decision was to change the routing of the golf course,” Coleman says. “The most significant land feature on
the property is a big rock formation in the middle of the course called Mount Tom. If we changed the routing, we could balance the nines from a difficulty perspective while allowing us to play in and around the Mount Tom area one more time.”
Starting with the 1st hole, which was converted from a mediocre par 5 to a killer par 4 last year, the club reworked seven of the existing holes. “The new 3rd hole is the old 12th hole,” Coleman explains. “Now it is a more than 600-yard par 5 with O.B. right and a creek left, fairway bunkers, and massive bunkers around the green. It will be our
Pelham CC New Hole No. 3
Photograph by Dave Donelson WESTCHESTER GOLF 2020 7