Golf

Playing Golf in Rochester

Golf is an important sport for Rochester. For a city of its size, and considering the length (or shortness, to be more precise) of the golf season, Rochester has a great number of courses, ranging from very inexpensive municipal courses to world class country clubs. Beyond the availability of golf in the area, Rochester also has many links to golf. Walter Hagen, one of the greatest golfers ever was born in Rochester, Robert Trent Jones, a world reknowned course architect spent most of his childhood in East Rochester, and PGA Tour Pro Jeff Sluman was born in Greece.

See RocWiki Golf Courses a Google User Map linking together the Golf courses listed on this page. Or Dowload the RocWikiGolfCourses.kml for use in Google Maps or Google Earth.

Professonial Events

Rochester is home to the annual Wegmans Rochester LPGA, held at Locust Hill Country Club in Henrietta.
Oak Hill Country Club has hosted many major golf events, most recently the 85th PGA Championship in 2003, and notably, the 1995 Ryder Cup
The Country Club of Rochester has been the site of two US Women's Opens
The Nationwide tour began holding the Xerox Classic at the Irondequoit Country Club in 2005