Jeffersonville Golf Club

Overview: Jeffersonville Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in West Norriton Township, outside Philadelphia. Donald J. Ross laid out the course across rolling ground that previously hosted steeplechase racing. The official scorecard identifies a par of 70, and the routing makes thoughtful placement important across a varied sequence of holes. The township-owned course retains a traditional parkland feel and serves as a substantial public golf facility in Montgomery County. The exact location at 2400 West Main Street matches this directory-backed target.

History: The course opened in 1931 after Anson B. Evans hired Donald Ross to convert the property into an 18-hole layout. Before golf, the site had been used for steeplechase races and later as the Montgomery Riding Academy. West Norriton Township purchased the course in 1972 and continues to own and operate it. This history distinguishes the opening of the golf course from the earlier sporting uses of the land and from the later transition to municipal ownership.

Did You Know? The number 27 in Jeffersonville’s logo recalls the half-mile steeplechase oval that once occupied ground now crossed by the eleventh and sixteenth holes. Thoroughbreds ran over obstacles on the track in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before it evolved into a riding academy. That earlier use gives the Ross course a link to a very different sporting landscape, now absorbed into the contours of a public golf course.