The Ledges Golf Club

Overview: The Ledges Golf Club in York is a Brad Booth design built through a rocky New England landscape. The course takes its name seriously: exposed ledges, rolling ground and elevated green and tee sites shape both the views and the playing strategy. Booth used the terrain to create a woodland course with open outlooks, fast undulating greens and a variety of uphill and downhill approaches. The layout has enough room to offer a full 18-hole par-72 test, but its identity is more about the natural landforms than about length. Players must judge how much of the sloping terrain to use and how much risk to accept when approaching the raised surfaces.

History: The course was developed through a seven-year process involving builder Pat Rocheleau and partners Tom Donegan and Ken Sullivan. Construction required extensive work in a site dominated by rock ledges, and The Ledges opened in 1999. The club later hosted the Northern New England U.S. Amateur qualifier for 12 consecutive years, adding a significant competitive chapter to its public-facing history. The original aim was to combine access to public golf with a course whose terrain and design could stand alongside the stronger private layouts in the region.

Did You Know? Construction used dynamite to transform sections of the rocky site into playable ground. The result is visible in the elevated tees and greens, where the exposed stone is not merely scenery but part of the course’s underlying architecture.