Oak Hill Country Club (East Course)

Donald Ross designed the East Course at Oak Hill in 1926 on a piece of Rochester, New York property donated by University of Rochester benefactors, working through his Boston office in the prolific stretch that also produced Pinehurst No. 2's modern routing and Seminole. The course sits in the Genesee River watershed twenty miles south of Lake Ontario, and Ross routed the eighteen holes through mature oak canopy that gives the property its name. Robert Trent Jones Sr. lengthened and redesigned several holes for the 1968 U.S. Open, and George and Tom Fazio worked on the property again before the 1989 U.S. Open. Andrew Green's 2018-2023 restoration brought the East Course closer to Ross's original architectural vocabulary.

The East Course plays around 7,400 yards par 70 from the championship markers, with a slope in the mid-140s. The course has hosted three U.S. Opens (1956, 1968, 1989), three PGA Championships (1980, 2003, 2023), one Ryder Cup (1995), and one U.S. Amateur. Cary Middlecoff won the 1956 U.S. Open; Lee Trevino won the 1968 U.S. Open; Curtis Strange won the 1989 U.S. Open in his successful title defense. Brooks Koepka won the 2023 PGA Championship at the restored Ross routing. The thirteenth — a 598-yard par-5 with a green set behind a creek crossing — and the fifteenth, a 191-yard par-3 across a natural ravine, are the routing's most-photographed pieces.

Oak Hill is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The club operates two courses — East and West — with East as the championship rotation venue. The West Course (also Ross 1926) hosts U.S. Mid-Amateur qualifying and Rochester-area amateur events but stays largely outside the major conversation.

Upstate New York climate gives Oak Hill a playing season of April through October. The oak canopy keeps the routing cooler in mid-summer than the surrounding suburban Rochester courses. The course closes through Rochester winter and reopens when the soil thaws.