Wilmington Country Club (North)

Overview: The North Course at Wilmington Country Club is an 18-hole Dick Wilson parkland design on the club's rolling Delaware Valley property. It plays to par 71 and 6,390 yards from the blue tees in current course references, making it notably shorter than Wilmington's South Course while retaining the club's tree-lined, championship-oriented character. The routing uses mature woodland, open fairway corridors and broad green surfaces to create a strategic round in which the best line into the putting surface often matters more than simply finding the fairway. Its scale is substantial without becoming a test built only for powerful players.

History: The North Course belongs to the club's move and expansion at the Kirk Road location. Wilmington Country Club's broader history begins in 1901, but the present North Course opened for play in 1961 and was designed by Dick Wilson. It was built as the companion to Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s South Course, which dates from 1959. Keeping the two routings separate is important: the North is a Wilson course from 1961, not a second Jones design, and its current 6,390-yard record is distinct from the South Course's longer championship setup.

Did You Know? Wilmington's two 18-hole courses date from only two years apart, yet they represent two different postwar architectural voices: Robert Trent Jones Sr. on the South in 1959 and Dick Wilson on the North in 1961. That pairing gives the club an unusually clear side-by-side design history.