Cincinnati Country Club

Cincinnati Country Club has operated on a piece of Cincinnati, Ohio land since 1899 — making it one of the oldest country clubs in the Ohio River Valley. The original routing was contributed to by Walter Travis and later Donald Ross consulted on significant redesign work through the 1920s. The modern course reflects the multi-era design history with continuing agronomic-and-architectural restoration that has preserved both the Travis-era strategic principles and the Ross green-complex vocabulary.

The course plays around 6,800 yards par 70 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's age and the natural Ohio River Valley terrain give the course defense that modern equipment doesn't overcome through length alone. The fairways play firm given the Ohio Valley subsoil. The mature deciduous canopy through the property has grown to championship-narrowing dimensions over the club's century-plus history. The fifteenth hole is a 442-yard par-4 with a tee shot played over a creek; the seventeenth, a 195-yard par-3 across a natural depression, is the routing's most-discussed one-shotter.

Cincinnati Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Cincinnati business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's late-1800s founding. The institutional history through Ohio's first century of organized golf is part of the club's identity, and the hospitality model is traditional country club.

Cincinnati climate gives Cincinnati Country Club a playing season of March through November, with the firmest conditions in October. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The mature tree canopy through the property gives the routing a parkland character that has been preserved through generations of restoration work, and the autumn color through October is part of the routing's seasonal photographic signature.