Shepard Hills, The Club At

Waverly sits in the Southern Tier of New York, right along the Pennsylvania border where the Chemung River valley shapes the surrounding landscape into a series of rolling hills and wooded ridgelines. It's a corner of the state where golf tends to feel unhurried and rooted in community — the kind of region where a private or semi-private club serves as a genuine gathering place across generations.

Shepard Hills, The Club At, works with the natural contours of that terrain. The name alone suggests what a golfer can expect: elevation changes, uneven lies, and a routing that asks you to think about more than just yardage. Courses built into this type of glacially shaped topography rarely play the same twice, and weather rolling in off the Appalachian Plateau can shift conditions quickly.

A par 72 across 18 holes is a classic, complete test, and in a setting like this one, it's likely more demanding than any number on paper suggests. For golfers in the Twin Tiers area — straddling the New York-Pennsylvania line — this is a genuinely local course in the best sense of that phrase.