Few country clubs in northeastern Pennsylvania carry the institutional weight of Irem Country Club. Founded in the early 20th century and connected to the Irem Temple Shriners — one of the region's most prominent fraternal organizations — the club has long been a cornerstone of the social and sporting life of the Wyoming Valley. That heritage gives the place a character that newer facilities simply can't manufacture.
Dallas sits in Luzerne County, in the hills above Wilkes-Barre and the broad Susquehanna River valley. The terrain here is genuinely varied — rolling, wooded, and shaped by the ridgelines of the Pocono plateau's western edge. That topography tends to produce courses with elevation change and tree-lined corridors, where managing the land matters as much as length off the tee.
As a private members' club, Irem rewards those who know it. The rhythms of a course like this — its prevailing winds, its seasonal conditions, its quirky corners — take time to learn, and that accumulated local knowledge is part of what membership means in a community where the club has existed for generations.
