Wilmington Country Club (South)

Overview: The South Course at Wilmington Country Club is the club's championship routing through the rolling Delaware Valley landscape. Robert Trent Jones Sr. created a par-71 parkland course with long corridors, large bunkers, broad green complexes and enough movement in the ground to make position important before the approach. The course reaches 7,521 yards in the club's current course information, but its scale is not only about length. The wide fairways and expansive targets give the layout room for bold play, while the angles into the greens and the changing lies reward a more deliberate strategy. Andrew Green's 2020 renovation is now part of the course's current architectural history.

History: Wilmington Country Club traces its wider history to 1901, after earlier Delaware Cricket Club and Delaware Field Club origins. The South Course officially opened for play on October 8, 1959, after the club acquired land for its permanent Kirk Road home. Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed the routing, and Andrew Green led a major renovation in 2020. The club has hosted important championships and exhibitions over many decades, including the 2022 BMW Championship, so the South Course combines a mid-century design foundation with an active modern tournament role.

Did You Know? Wilmington's club history reaches back to a nine-hole golf layout dating to 1901, but the present South Course belongs to the 1959 move to the Kirk Road property. The club also served the community during the 1918 influenza epidemic, when its clubhouse became a temporary hospital.