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Sunningdale Country Club was organized in November 1913 and named after the celebrated Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire, England. Located in the heart of Scarsdale, NY, the course occupies 149 acres in Scarsdale, New York with an 18-hole course featuring 6,461 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71. The Green Construction Committee retained Seth J. Raynor to design and oversee the construction of the golf course, with advisory input from Charles Blair Macdonald, the father of American golf course architecture.

The course was originally laid out by Raynor in 1916, but members soon tired of the many blind shots, so Walter Travis was called in to ring the changes in 1920. In 1929, A.W. Tillinghast was retained to find room for a swimming pool and accomplished the task by combining the par three 17th and par five 18th holes, then adding the drop-shot, par three 12th hole. In 2006, Sunningdale enlisted Mike DeVries to create a renovation master plan which was completed in autumn 2016.

Like so many great Westchester courses, the rolling terrain creates an ideal setting for golf with green complexes that have character and extreme undulation. The original Raynor routing is very much intact and the humps, bumps and hillocks he utilized on the property remain an important part of it, providing an abundance of strategic interest to fully engage the golfer.