Fort Cherry Golf Club

Fort Cherry Golf Club sits in the rolling farm country of southwestern Pennsylvania, about 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh in Washington County. This is classic western Pennsylvania golf terrain — tight, tree-lined corridors cut through the wooded hillsides, with elevation changes that demand shot-making and local knowledge in equal measure. The region has a long, unpretentious golfing tradition built on blue-collar public tracks and members' clubs that have served their communities for generations.

As a private club serving a largely residential area between Pittsburgh and the West Virginia border, Fort Cherry has the feel of a genuine members' course — a place where regulars know every bounce and break, and where the social fabric of the club is as much a draw as the golf itself. Courses of this type throughout western Pennsylvania tend to reward strategic thinking over raw power, with the terrain doing much of the course's defensive work.

McDonald itself is a small borough on the western edge of Allegheny County, and the surrounding countryside gives courses here a relaxed, unhurried character that stands apart from the congestion of Pittsburgh's closer-in suburbs.