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Quaker Ridge Golf Club is a private golf club in Scarsdale, New York. It is a championship 7,023-yard par-70 course designed by renowned golf course designer A. W. Tillinghast, who redesigned seven existing holes and constructed 11 new ones. The course was completed in 1918 and the Tudor-styled clubhouse was built in 1923. The course has remained relatively unchanged since its construction, with a few outdated bunkers replaced in 1965. Gil Hanse has worked at Quaker Ridge Golf Club since 2002, during which time a significant number of trees have been removed and the bunkers restored back to how they might have looked in the Roaring Twenties.

The course is set in undulating heavily wooded country and is an exacting test of golf. When discussing Quaker Ridge, conversations often lead to the quality and challenge of the par 4s, with the middle stretch of par 4s (6, 7, 11, and 12) getting the most attention while the back-to-back par 3s (9 and 10) add to a fantastic string of holes in the middle of the round. Located next door to the famed Winged Foot courses, Quaker Ridge is blessed with better terrain to work with, featuring elevation changes that contrast to the nearly flat terrain of Winged Foot.

Quaker Ridge hosted the 75th Walker Cup in 1997, which ended with a resounding US victory over Great Britain and Ireland, 18 points to 6. The restored course was a fitting stage for the 2018 Curtis Cup matches, which the home team dominated. In 2008, Golf Digest rated Quaker Ridge the 30th best course in the United States.