Yardley Country Club

Yardley Country Club sits in Yardley, Pennsylvania, a historic Bucks County borough along the Delaware River northeast of Philadelphia. The course was designed by Frederick A. Findlay and Alex Findlay, Scottish-born brothers who were among the early wave of golf professionals and architects working in America during the sport's formative years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Findlays designed and helped establish numerous courses throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing traditional Scottish design sensibilities to American terrain. The layout occupies rolling Pennsylvania countryside typical of the Delaware Valley region, with mature tree-lined fairways and modest elevation changes that create natural strategic interest. The routing reflects the design principles common to early American courses influenced by Scottish links traditions, adapted to the wooded inland setting. Holes move through corridors of hardwoods and across gently contoured ground, requiring thoughtful club selection and course management rather than overwhelming length. Yardley Country Club functions as a traditional private club serving the local community, maintaining the character of an established neighborhood course with deep roots in the area's golf history. The club provides a setting where members enjoy the game in a relatively intimate environment, reflective of the many early twentieth-century clubs that formed the foundation of American golf culture in the Philadelphia suburbs and surrounding counties.