“Philadelphia has elite blue blood private clubs like Aronimink, Merion, Philadelphia Cricket Club and Pine Valley [just across the river in New Jersey]. The members there are legacy golfers—a lot of grandfathers, fathers and sons. It's their culture, it’s who they are. Everything sort of revolves around the club.”

A fellow golfer on a social media page I frequent suggested what he feels would be the perfect course set-up the other day. For him, six par threes, six par fours and six par fives would offer the perfect competition, improvement goals and just plain fun.