Piping Rock

Piping Rock on Long Island.
A stunning aerial view of Piping Rock. Patrick Koenig

Piping Rock

  • Course Type

    Private
  • GOLF Top 100 Courses in the U.S. Rank (2024-25)

    66
  • Year

    1911
  • Architect

    C.B. Macdonald
  • Par

    71
  • Yardage

    6,866

Course Overview

Fresh off his work at National Golf Links of America, C.B. Macdonald started adding to his repertoire of template designs at this golf-meets-Gatsby Long Island club. The Biarritz and Knoll holes made their debut here, for instance. Among architecture buffs, Piping Rock’s Knoll 13th with its raised green that falls off starkly on all sides remains its finest iteration. The front nine wraps around a former polo field while the back heads into the hillier portion of the property. The course is also home to one of Macdonald’s finest par 5s, the 6th, which features a bedeviling back plateau ringed by trouble.
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