The Country Club of Rochester

About the club

The Country Club of Rochester was founded in 1895, and Donald Ross’ design opened in 1913. The club commissioned Robert Trent Jones to renovate the course in 1960 before following with Gil Hanse in 2004, who was tasked with marrying elements of Jones’ renovation with the original Ross design and routing. The course now features tight tree-lined fairways with dramatic elevation changes that create blind shots and dramatic approaches. With the course measuring just under 7,000 yards, its main defenses are small and firm greens with extensive slopes and penal runoff areas. The highlight at Country Club of Rochester is the difficult middle stretch with two challenging par 4s to end the front nine, as well as the long par-5 10th and tricky par-3 11th to begin the back.