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The Creek Club is an 18-hole golf course in Locust Valley, New York featuring 6,454 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70. The club opened in 1923 and was initially designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, one of its founding members. It was built by his understudy Seth Raynor, with much of the course set down on lower ground beside the Long Island Sound. The course has retained its timeless aesthetic through a major restoration overseen by Gil Hanse in 2017, preserving the original vision while refining playability.

The course opens with holes framed by trees, then moves onto a bluff that overlooks Long Island Sound, with holes at the turn playing adjacent to the shore and offering fresh takes on Macdonald's template holes. The 10th is a dogleg along the sea and his version of the Leven, while the 11th is an island Biarritz green. The layout tumbles from a forested ridge down toward a tidal creek, with the 6th hole being a wonderful two-shotter featuring a unique bowl-shaped green surrounded by mounds and wrapped around an immense front bunker. The most unique feature is how the fluctuating tide comes into the course and creates an island green at the 11th hole.

The course rating is 71.5 with a slope rating of 130. Slow deterioration between the 1940s and 1980s was reversed during a recent restoration project headed by Tom Doak, who successfully replaced bunkers and returned lost green shapes to their original proportions. Other Macdonald template favorites present at the course include the Eden, Redan and Short holes.