Hollow Brook Golf Club

Hollow Brook Golf Club occupies a stretch of Westchester County's hilly interior, where the terrain is anything but flat and the mature hardwood canopy that defines this part of New York's lower Hudson Valley makes itself known on virtually every hole. Cortlandt Manor sits in the northern reaches of the county, far enough from the city to feel genuinely rural but close enough to draw a serious, golf-savvy membership.

The course plays to a par of 71, which often signals a layout where the architect leaned on the land's natural contours rather than forcing a conventional balance of par 4s and 5s. In Westchester, that typically means elevation change, doglegs shaped by ridgelines, and greens that reward local knowledge — the kind of course where a first-time visitor can easily be fooled by what looks straightforward.

Westchester County has long been one of the most golf-rich counties in the United States, home to storied private clubs and a competitive regional golf culture. Hollow Brook fits into that landscape as a private members' club where the terrain does most of the talking.