Deepdale Golf Club

Deepdale began in 1924 on William K. Vanderbilt II's Lake Success estate, where Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor laid out the original course. When construction of the Long Island Expressway carved through that property in the mid-1950s, the club relocated to the nearby Grace family estate in Manhasset, whose mansion became the clubhouse. Dick Wilson designed the present course, which opened in 1955. Wilson's layout is defined by tree-lined, tightly framed fairways, pronounced doglegs, and famously fast, heavily contoured greens that fall away toward sand-protected surfaces. Architecture critics have long ranked it among Wilson's strongest work, praising the demanding green complexes while noting the abundance of doglegs. Private and low-profile from the outset, Deepdale has kept its reputation as one of the more exacting shot-makers' courses on Long Island's North Shore, rewarding position off the tee and a deft touch on and around the greens.