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Plandome Country Club is an 18-hole course in Plandome, New York featuring 6,610 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71. The course rating is 71.6 and it has a slope rating of 132 on Bent grass. The Plandome Golf Club engaged Orrin Smith, a relatively unknown architect from New Britain, Connecticut, to design the course, which was officially opened on Decoration Day, May 31, 1931. Smith's design skillfully incorporated the site's natural beauty, preserving many of the existing trees and plantings while fitting eighteen holes into the 107-acre property.
The course is one of Nassau County's most picturesque and challenging golf courses, with its opening hole regarded as one of the toughest in the Met Area. Initially, Plandome was known for its English-style ambiance and shared a reciprocal arrangement with the Garden City Country Club. The course features notable history, including a visit from early golf professional David Hunter from Prestwick, Scotland, who found the course reminiscent of his native land. Among the club's notable history is the 1962 club championship winner, R.L. Riggs, better known as Bobby Riggs.
A devastating fire on December 23, 1958 caused significant damage to the original clubhouse, leading to the construction of the current brick clubhouse with its circular entrance drive. Recent improvements at Plandome include the installation of mahogany lockers for the men, and the addition of a nineteenth hole, a legitimate par-3 hole between the original seventeenth green and eighteenth tee.
