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Chester Valley Golf Club has been a fixture of Philadelphia's western suburbs since 1916, making it one of the older private clubs on the Main Line. The course was designed by William Flynn, the Philadelphia-area architect responsible for Shinnecock Hills and Merion's East Course, which alone signals the pedigree at work here. Flynn's routing takes full advantage of the Chestnut Hill and Chester Valley terrain — a property that rewards shot-making and positional thinking far more than raw power, which explains why a par 70 plays considerably more demanding than that number implies.
The Main Line golf scene is quietly serious, and Chester Valley fits comfortably in that tradition: a members' club with a long institutional memory, the kind of place where the same families have held memberships across generations. Malvern sits in Chester County, rolling countryside west of Philadelphia where old money and old courses tend to coexist without much fanfare.
Flynn's work here shares the strategic DNA of his more famous commissions — natural contours preserved, greens complexes that reward approach angle, and a routing that feels discovered rather than imposed on the land.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue · men | 6,686 | 72.7 | 137 | 70 |
| Blue/White · men | 6,462 | 71.7 | 135 | 70 |
| White · men | 6,217 | 70.6 | 132 | 70 |
| White · women | 6,217 | 77.1 | 140 | 70 |
| Green · men | 6,002 | 69.5 | 131 | 70 |
| Gold · men | 5,597 | 67.7 | 127 | 70 |
| Gold · women | 5,575 | 73.6 | 132 | 70 |
| Red · women | 4,992 | 70.3 | 126 | 70 |
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